GeForce 8600M GT and HD Graphics 400 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT
HD Graphics 400
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code name
G84M
Braswell GT1
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
April 2015
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
-
640 MHz
Core clock speed
475 MHz
320 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
96
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
6 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
7.680
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
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)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.3
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80