GeForce 8600M GS and Radeon R3 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GS
Radeon R3 Graphics
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
G84M
Beema
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
January 2015
Interface
MXM-II
IGP
Boost clock speed
-
600 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
267 MHz
Floating-point performance
28.8 gflops
153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
128
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
4.800
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
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
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