GeForce 8600M GT and Mobility Radeon X1700 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600M GT
Mobility Radeon X1700
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84M
M66-P
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2007
February 2006
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
-
475 MHz
Core clock speed
475 MHz
5 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
17
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
7.600
1.900
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
DDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A