GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 8600M GS
72
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
G86
G84M
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
June 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
3.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A