GeForce 8600M GS: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8600M GS sales 1 May 2007. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 512 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-II interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 8600M GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G86 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 May 2007 (17 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 8600M GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8600M GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 450 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.600 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0288 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8600M GS and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
| Interface | MXM-II |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8600M GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 400 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8600M GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 8600M GS, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8600M GS. 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.
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