AMD Radeon HD 8470D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

What is the difference between AMD Radeon HD 8470D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

ScrapperGPU NameG84
TeraScale 3ArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
32 nmProcess Size80 nm
1,303 millionTransistors289 million
246 mm²Die Size169 mm²

Graphics Card

Jul 29th, 2013Release DateApr 17th, 2007
Richland
(HD 8000)
FamilyGeForce 8
(8600)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
TrinityPredecessorGeForce 7 PCIe
IGPBus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

System SharedMemory Size128 MB
System SharedMemory TypeGDDR3
System SharedMemory Bus128 bit
System DependentBandwidth24.00 GB/s

Performance

3.200 GPixel/sPixel fillrate4.800 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/sTexture fillrate9.600 GTexel/s
307.2 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance92.80 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

System SharedMemory Clock750 MHz
1500 Mbps effective
800 MHzGPU Clock600 MHz

Render Config

192Shading Units32
12TMUs16
4ROPs8

Board Design

IGPSlot WidthSingle-slot
65 WThermal design power (TDP)47 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI

API support

11.2 (11_0)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
4.4OpenGL3.3
1.2OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.0Shader Model4.0