GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce GT 420M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce GT 420M
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce GT 420M
417
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce GT 420M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G84
N11P-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
96
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
6.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
(G)DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
25.6 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 API
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.5
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A