NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM 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 95W)
AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1266MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Radeon E9550 MXM
+9623%
5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Sep 2016
GeForce 8M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Ellesmere
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
