GeForce 8600M GS and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600M GS vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 8600M GS
72
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 8600M GS
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84M
RV670
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
November 2007
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
28.8 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
320
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (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