AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 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

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

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

4

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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)

-

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

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