GeForce 8600M GT and GeForce GTS 450 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G84M
GF106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
October 2010
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
475 MHz
790 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
455.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
144
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
18.96
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A