AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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 Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1301MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +15443%

9.326 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2018

Release Date

Oct 2007

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

-

1301 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

32

224

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

83.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

291.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

18.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.326 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

582.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

G84

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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