GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G84
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2007
April 2017
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
470 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.16 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
320
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.520
20.60
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1270 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
20.32 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-