GeForce 8600M GS vs Radeon RX 480 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile 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 100W)
Radeon RX 480 Mobile Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1077MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GS
29
Radeon RX 480 Mobile
+17013%
4963
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 8M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1077 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
1
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2304
8
TMUs
144
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
34.46 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.963 TFLOPS
28.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.963 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
310.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G86-770-A2
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
127 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