GeForce 8600M GT and HD Graphics 500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600M GT vs HD Graphics 500
GeForce 8600M GT
92
HD Graphics 500
307
GeForce 8600M GT
HD Graphics 500
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GPU code name
G84M
Apollo Lake
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2007
September 2016
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
-
700 MHz
Core clock speed
475 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
144.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
12
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
9.000
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
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)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.97
Quick Sync
-
+