GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 315M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce 315M
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 315M
118
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 315M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
G84
N11M-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
December 2010
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
606 MHz
CUDA cores
-
16
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
38.78 gflops
Gigaflops
-
73
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
16
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
14 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
4.848
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
Up to 512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0