GeForce 8600 GTS and HD Graphics 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs HD Graphics 520
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
HD Graphics 520
856
GeForce 8600 GTS
HD Graphics 520
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
G84
Skylake GT2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
September 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
24
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
25.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
32 GB
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)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
+
Quick Sync
-
+