GeForce 8600M GT: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8600M GT sales 31 December 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 GT: 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 | G84 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 31 December 2007 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 8600M GT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8600M GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 475 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 289 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 7.600 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0608 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8600M GT 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 GT: 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 GT. 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 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8600M GT. 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.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8600M GT is Radeon HD 8310E.
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