NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3670 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)

Lower TDP (20W vs 30W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

88 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3670 +171%

0.163 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 8M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.720 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.440 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

163.2 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

30W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M86

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (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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