GeForce 8600M GT and GeForce 8700M GT SLI - video card comparison

GeForce 8600M GT

GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Architecture

G8x (2007−2008)

G8x (2007−2008)

GPU code name

G84M

NB8E-SE

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2007

September 2007

Interface

MXM-II

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Core clock speed

475 MHz

625 MHz

Floating-point performance

60.8 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

578 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

64

Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

58 Watt

Texture fill rate

7.600

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Memory type

GDDR3, GDDR2

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

700 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

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OpenGL

3.3

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Shader Model

4.0

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Vulkan

N/A

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