GeForce 8600M GT and Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT
Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84M
Whistler
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
July 2012
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
475 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
480
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
14.40
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A