
GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce MX230
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce MX230
1894
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce MX230
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G84
N17S-G0
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
256
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
25.31
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+