AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 M290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +3740%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G84

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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