HD Graphics 3000 and GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
September 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
32
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.80
10.80
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
2016 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
32.26 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A