AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro 580 NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580 +9116%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580

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GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2007

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

217.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G84

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

185W

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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