GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and Radeon HD 8310E - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
Radeon HD 8310E
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
G84
Kalindi
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2007
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
675 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,178 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
128
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.80
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
2016 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
32.26 GB/s
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Display Connectors
2x DVI
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131