GeForce 8600M GS vs Radeon R7 M445
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R7 M445 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 M445 Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock920MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GS
29
Radeon R7 M445
+1927%
588
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
May 2016
GeForce 8M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
780 MHz
-
Boost Clock
920 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
1
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
20
4
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.360 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.40 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
588.8 GFLOPS
28.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
588.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
36.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Meso
G86-770-A2
GPU Variant
Meso PRO
(216-0864032)
(216-0864032)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5