GeForce 8600M GS and GT215 - video card comparison

GeForce 8600M GS

GT215

Architecture

G8x (2007−2008)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

G84M

GT215

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

June 2007

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Interface

MXM-II

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Core clock speed

600 MHz

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Floating-point performance

28.8 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

727 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

96

Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

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Texture fill rate

3.600

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Memory type

GDDR3, GDDR2

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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

12.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

1.1

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4