GeForce 8600 GT vs GTX 980M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking220not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.87no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameno dataG84
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 October 2014 (10 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 cores307232
Core clock speed1038 MHz540 MHz
Boost clock speed1127 MHzno data
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million289 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.640
Floating-point processing powerno data0.07616 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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 1.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
Widthno data1-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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB512 MB
Standard memory config per GPUno data256 MB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz700 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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA+1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2014 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 47 Watt

GTX 980M SLI has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

8600 GT, on the other hand, has 325.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980M SLI and GeForce 8600 GT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980M SLI is a notebook card while GeForce 8600 GT is a desktop one.


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