Radeon HD 6450A and GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6450A
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Caicos
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
April 2007
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
200 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
32
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
9.600
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1066 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.528 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A