GeForce 8600M GS and GeForce 320M Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 320M Mac Edition
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G84M
C89
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
April 2010
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
600 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
28.8 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
48
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
7.200
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A