NVS 5100M vs GeForce 8600M GT SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1290
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.04
ArchitectureG8x (2007)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameNB8P-GSGT216
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date23 October 2007 (17 years ago)7 January 2010 (15 years ago)

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 cores6448
Core clock speed475 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors598 Million486 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1162 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16
L2 Cacheno data64 KB

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataMXM-A (3.0)

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 typeGDDR3, GDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX1011.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 October 2007 7 January 2010
Chip lithography 80 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 35 Watt

8600M GT SLI has 75% lower power consumption.

NVS 5100M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600M GT SLI and NVS 5100M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8600M GT SLI is a notebook graphics card while NVS 5100M is a mobile workstation one.

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