GeForce 8600 GT and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Gen. 5 Arrandale (2010)
GPU code name
G84
GMA HD
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
45 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
12
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
700 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
+
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
2.1
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Shader Model
4.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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