
GeForce 8600M GT and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G84M
GP108
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
March 2018
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
475 MHz
1152 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
384
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
33.10
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131