GeForce 8600M GT vs Radeon RX 570 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1336
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.99
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameEllesmereG84
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 December 2017 (7 years ago)31 December 2007 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599.99 no data

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 cores204832
Core clock speed926 MHz475 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate154.47.600
Floating-point processing power4.94 TFLOPS0.0608 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs12816

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 sizelargemedium sized
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-II

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1650 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s12.8 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

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D 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
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2017 31 December 2007
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 20 Watt

RX 570 Mobile has an age advantage of 9 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

8600M GT, on the other hand, has 325% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570 Mobile and GeForce 8600M GT. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile
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