GeForce 8600 GTS and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
G84
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
6
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
32 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)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80