GeForce 8600M GT and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
G84M
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2007
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
475 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
96
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
17.60
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0