NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs Intel HD Graphics 400

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1037not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameBraswell GT1G84
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 April 2015 (8 years old)17 April 2007 (16 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$159
Current price$710 $182 (1.1x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores9632
Core clock speed320 MHz540 MHz
Boost clock speed640 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rate7.6808.6 billion/sec
Floating-point performance134.4 gflops76.16 gflops

Size and 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 3.0 x1PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI optionsno 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 typeDDR3LGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Standard memory config per GPUno data256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 GB/s

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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.32.1
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.1.80N/A
CUDAno data1.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 April 2015 17 April 2007
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 47 Watt

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