GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce GTS 250M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce GTS 250M
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce GTS 250M
570
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce GTS 250M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
G84
N10E-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
675 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
240 gflops
Gigaflops
-
360
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
96
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
28 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
16.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
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
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0