GeForce 8600M GS and Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GS
Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
G84M
M10
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
June 2004
Interface
MXM-II
AGP 8x
Core clock speed
600 MHz
333 MHz
Floating-point performance
28.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
76 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.600
1.332
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0 (9_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A