GeForce 8600 GT vs 320M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1215not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.70no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameC89G84
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 April 2010 (14 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$159

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 cores4832
Core clock speed450 MHz540 MHz
Number of transistors486 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rate7.2008.640
Floating-point processing power0.0912 TFLOPS0.07616 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1616

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options-+

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Standard memory config per GPUno data256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 GB/s
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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 320M 209
+69.9%
8600 GT 123

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2010 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 47 Watt

GeForce 320M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 104.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 320M and GeForce 8600 GT. We've got no test results to judge.


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