GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and Radeon RX 6700 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
Navi 22
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2007
March 2021
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2581 MHz
Core clock speed
470 MHz
2321 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
17,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
230 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.520
413.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1270 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
20.32 GB/s
384.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2