GeForce 8600M GT and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600M GT vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 8600M GT
92
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 8600M GT
Radeon 8500
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
G84M
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
August 2001
Interface
MXM-II
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
475 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
8.1
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.4
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A