Intel Arc Pro A30M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc Pro A30M 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
Intel Arc Pro A30M 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc Pro A30M
+6726%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2022
Release Date
Oct 2007
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
1024
Shading Units
32
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
8
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
DG2-128
GPU Name
G84
ACM-G11
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
80 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
157 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
