UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs 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 rated652
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.25
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameG84Tiger Lake Xe
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 years 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 cores3248
Core clock speed675 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1450 MHz
Number of transistors289 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rate10.80no data
Floating-point processing power0.0928 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no data

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 x16no data
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount256 MBno data
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
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-Videono data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12_1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 80 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 28 Watt

UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs has an age advantage of 13 years, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600 GTS and UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8600 GTS is a desktop card while UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs is a notebook one.


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