AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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AMD Radeon RX 6500M NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2400MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500M +7957%

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2007

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

-

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

G84

Navi 24 XM

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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