GeForce 8600M GS and GeForce3 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600M GS vs GeForce3
GeForce 8600M GS
72
GeForce3
4
GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce3
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name
G84M
NV20 A5
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
February 2001
Interface
MXM-II
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
200 MHz
Floating-point performance
28.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
57 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.600
1.600
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
230 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
3.68 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x VGA, 1x DB13W3
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
8.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.3
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A