ATI Mobility Radeon X1450 vs GeForce 8600M GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1323not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.50no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameG84M64
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date31 December 2007 (17 years ago)18 September 2006 (19 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 cores326
Core clock speed475 MHz550 MHz
Boost clock speedno data550 MHz
Number of transistors289 million107 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate7.6002.200
Floating-point processing power0.0608 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs164
L2 Cache32 KBno 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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeDDR2DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz450 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s14.4 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 outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 December 2007 18 September 2006
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB

8600M GT has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

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