HD Graphics 3000 and GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
GeForce 8600M GT 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
October 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-II
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
470 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
60.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
32
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.80
7.520
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
1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
20.32 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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