NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A530M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 65W)
Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1300MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Arc A530M
+6556%
3.994 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 8M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1300 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
12
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
62.40 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
65W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
DG2-256
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
ACM-G12
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
Unknown
169 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
