GeForce 8600 GT vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU

Place in the ranking	360	1309
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	0.47
Architecture	no data	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	no data	G84
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	10 November 2020 (4 years ago)	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$159

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	8	32
Core clock speed	1278 MHz	540 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	289 million
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	47 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	8.640
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.07616 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	8
TMUs	no data	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	no data	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	no data	170 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	-	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	no data	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	no data	512 MB
Standard memory config per GPU	no data	256 MB
Memory bus width	no data	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	22.4 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

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2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	no data	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	no data	4.0
OpenGL	no data	2.1
OpenCL	no data	1.1
Vulkan	-	N/A
CUDA	-	1.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

0−1

Cost per frame, $

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

21−24

0−1

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24	0−1
Battlefield 5	45−50 +4500%	1−2 −4500%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	21−24	0−1
Far Cry 5	30−35	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	35−40	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	90−95 +4500%	2−3 −4500%
Hitman 3	27−30	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	70−75 +7100%	1−2 −7100%
Metro Exodus	45−50 +4600%	1−2 −4600%
Red Dead Redemption 2	35−40	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50 +4500%	1−2 −4500%
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80 +7500%	1−2 −7500%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24	0−1
Battlefield 5	45−50 +4500%	1−2 −4500%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	21−24	0−1
Far Cry 5	30−35	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	35−40	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	90−95 +4500%	2−3 −4500%
Hitman 3	27−30	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	70−75 +7100%	1−2 −7100%
Metro Exodus	45−50 +4600%	1−2 −4600%
Red Dead Redemption 2	35−40	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50 +4500%	1−2 −4500%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−35	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80 +7500%	1−2 −7500%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	21−24	0−1
Far Cry 5	30−35	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	90−95 +4500%	2−3 −4500%
Hitman 3	27−30	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	70−75 +7100%	1−2 −7100%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50 +4500%	1−2 −4500%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−35	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80 +7500%	1−2 −7500%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

35−40

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	27−30	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	21−24	0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	10−12	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8	0−1
Far Cry 5	16−18	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	70−75 +7100%	1−2 −7100%
Hitman 3	16−18	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	27−30	0−1
Metro Exodus	24−27	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	24−27	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	85−90 +8600%	1−2 −8600%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

21−24

0−1

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11	0−1
Hitman 3	10−11	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	65−70 +6800%	1−2 −6800%
Metro Exodus	12−14	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	8−9	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3	0−1
Far Cry 5	8−9	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	18−20	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	5−6	0−1