AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M270X +5196%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

May 2007

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

768

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G86

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

127 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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