AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M470 NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 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 M470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +2460%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 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

635 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

G84

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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