AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 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 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
+6105%
3.723 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Oct 2007
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2048
Shading Units
32
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
G84
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
