Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 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
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+4123%
2534
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
60
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Oct 2007
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
768
Shading Units
32
48
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
20W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Tesla
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
80 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.289 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
