AMD Radeon R7 A360 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 A360 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 R7 A360 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1125MHz
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 R7 A360
+1340%
0.864 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Oct 2007
All-In-One
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
1100 MHz
Base Clock
-
1125 MHz
Boost Clock
-
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
9.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
27.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
864.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
864.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
54.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
20W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Meso
GPU Name
G84
Meso XT
(216-0864018)
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
