AMD Radeon R9 M265X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M265X NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M265X 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 R9 M265X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M265X +1233%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M265X

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GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

625 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

50.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

G84

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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