Radeon RX 6500M vs GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated271
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data27.98
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameG84Navi 24
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 October 2007 (17 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores321024
Core clock speed470 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2400 MHz
Number of transistors289 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate7.520153.6
Floating-point processing power0.06016 TFLOPS4.915 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1664
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & 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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed635 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth20.32 GB/s144.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.2
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 October 2007 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 50 Watt

8600M GT Mac Edition has 150% lower power consumption.

RX 6500M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and Radeon RX 6500M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
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