Radeon HD 8670M and GeForce 8600M GT SLI - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8670M

GeForce 8600M GT SLI

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

G8x (2007−2008)

GPU code name

Sun

NB8P-GS

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

November 2012

October 2007

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Boost clock speed

825 MHz

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Core clock speed

775 MHz

475 MHz

Floating-point performance

633.6 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

598 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

64

Power consumption (TDP)

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20 Watt

Texture fill rate

19.50

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Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3, GDDR2

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

700 MHz

Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

10

OpenCL

1.2

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OpenGL

4.6

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Shader Model

5.1

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Vulkan

1.2.131

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