GeForce 8600M GS and GeForce 9300M GS DDR2 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 9300M GS DDR2
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84M
G98
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
June 2008
Interface
MXM-II
MXM-I
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
28.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
8
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
13 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.600
2.320
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 MBps
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A