GeForce 840M and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 840M vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 840M
1121
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 840M
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N15S-GT
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
April 2007
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
-
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
32
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.98
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-