GeForce 8600M GS and GeForce 8400 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600M GS vs GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 8600M GS
72
GeForce 8400 GS
156
GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 8400 GS
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84M
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
April 2007
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
600 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
28.8 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A