NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

8 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (12W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition +66%

0.06 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3430

0.036 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 8M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

32

Shading Units

40

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M82

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

M82-SE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

12W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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