GeForce GTX 1650 vs 8600M GT SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated269
Place by popularitynot in top-1003
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data38.83
Power efficiencyno data18.68
ArchitectureG8x (2007)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNB8P-GSTU117
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 October 2007 (17 years ago)23 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores64896
Core clock speed475 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors598 Million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data93.24
Floating-point processing powerno data2.984 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data56

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3, GDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 October 2007 23 April 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 75 Watt

8600M GT SLI has 275% lower power consumption.

GTX 1650, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600M GT SLI and GeForce GTX 1650. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8600M GT SLI is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 1650 is a desktop one.


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