AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550M 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 RX 6550M 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2840MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550M +9593%

5.816 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Oct 2007

Navi Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

-

2840 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

181.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

11.63 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.816 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

363.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

G84

Navi 24

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

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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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