GeForce 8600M GT and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
G84M
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2007
April 2012
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
475 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
6
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
7.600
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80