NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +4403%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

16

Shading Units

960

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Blackcomb

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 620M

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

4

AMD Radeon Pro 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

6

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

7

AMD FirePro M7820 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

8

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

9

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

10

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD FirePro M5725