GeForce 8600M GT SLI vs Radeon HD 6650M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking895not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)G8x (2007)
GPU code nameWhistlerNB8P-GS
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)23 October 2007 (17 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 cores48064
Core clock speed600 MHz475 MHz
Number of transistors716 million598 Million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data20 Watt
Texture fill rate14.40no data
Floating-point processing power0.576 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs24no 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 sizedlarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data

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 typeDDR3GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 23 October 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm

HD 6650M has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6650M and GeForce 8600M GT SLI. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6650M
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