Radeon HD 3450 and GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3450
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV620
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
October 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
470 MHz
Floating-point performance
48 gflops
60.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
32
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
7.520
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
20.32 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A