GeForce 8600M GS: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8600M GS sales 9 June 2007. This is a laptop graphics card based on a G8x architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 512 MB of GDDR3, GDDR2 memory clocked at 700 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-II interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 8600M GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | G8x (2007−2008) | |
| GPU code name | G84M | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 9 June 2007 (16 years old) | |
| Current price | $66 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce 8600M GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8600M GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.600 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 28.8 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce 8600M GS's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
| Interface | MXM-II |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8600M GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3, GDDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8600M GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 8600M GS, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8600M GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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