NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics 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 25W)
Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 13 years late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+4123%
2.534 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 8M
Generation
HD Graphics-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
300 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
2133 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
68.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.60 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
79.20 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.069 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.534 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
633.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
DG1
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.1
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
80 nm
Process Size
10 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
Unknown
169 mm²
Die Size
95 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
