Radeon 760M vs GeForce 8600 GTS

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated348
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data72.51
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG84Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores32512
Core clock speed675 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2599 MHz
Number of transistors289 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate10.8083.17
Floating-point processing power0.0928 TFLOPS5.323 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs1632
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

8600 GTS 158
Radeon 760M 5812
+3578%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 80 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 760M has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1900% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon 760M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
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