ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3470 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

8 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3470

0.054 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition +11%

0.06 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3470

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Oct 2007

M8x

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

40

Shading Units

32

4

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.720 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

2.720 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

54.40 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M82

GPU Name

G84

M82-ME XT (216-0707009)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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