AMD Radeon 540 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 540 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540 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 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540 Mobile +1818%

1.151 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon 540 Mobile

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GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Oct 2007

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

35.97 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

1151 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1151 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

71.94 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G84

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

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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