XGI XG47 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureG8x (2007−2008)XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code nameG84MXG47
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 June 2007 (16 years old)no data
Current price$414 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32no data
Core clock speed475 MHzno data
Number of transistors289 million90 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate7.600no data
Floating-point performance60.8 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 8600M GT and XGI XG47 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIno data

Memory

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, GDDR2no data
Maximum RAM amount512 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed700 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Chip lithography 80 nm 130 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600M GT and XGI XG47. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8600M GT is a notebook card while XGI XG47 is a desktop one.


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