GeForce 8600 GS and HD Graphics 400 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
HD Graphics 400
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Braswell GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
640 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
320 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
96
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
6 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
7.680
Memory type
DDR2
DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.3
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80