GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and Radeon HD 8310E - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT 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
October 2007
April 2013
Interface
MXM-II
IGP
Core clock speed
470 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.16 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)
20 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.520
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1270 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
20.32 GB/s
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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