AMD Radeon R5 M315 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 M315

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M315 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M315 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M315 +1141%

0.745 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M315

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Oct 2007

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

23.28 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

745.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

745.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

46.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

G84

Meso LE (216-0864046)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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