GeForce 8600M GS vs Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8600M GS Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 30W)
Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GS
29
Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition
+1555%
480
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 8M
Generation
Vancouver
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
1
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
400
8
TMUs
20
4
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
28.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
480.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
30W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Capilano
G86-770-A2
GPU Variant
Capilano XT
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0