NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameEllesmereG84
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 October 2016 (7 years old)5 October 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$201 $50

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores179232
Core clock speed926 MHz470 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate135.17.520
Floating-point performance4,322 gflops60.16 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-II
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed6600 MHz1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s20.32 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDAno data1.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 21 October 2016 5 October 2007
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 20 Watt

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