GeForce 8600M GT SLI and Mobility Radeon X1700 - video card comparison

GeForce 8600M GT SLI

Mobility Radeon X1700

Architecture

G8x (2007−2008)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

NB8P-GS

M66-P

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

October 2007

February 2006

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Boost clock speed

-

475 MHz

Core clock speed

475 MHz

5 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

598 Million

157 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

17

Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

-

1.900

Memory type

GDDR3, GDDR2

DDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

700 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

12.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

10

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

-

N/A

OpenGL

-

2.0

Shader Model

-

3.0

Vulkan

-

N/A