GeForce 8700M GT and GeForce 8600M GT SLI - video card comparison

GeForce 8700M GT

GeForce 8600M GT SLI

Architecture

G8x (2007−2008)

G8x (2007−2008)

GPU code name

NB8E-SE

NB8P-GS

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2007

October 2007

Interface

MXM-HE

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Core clock speed

625 MHz

475 MHz

Floating-point performance

80 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

598 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

64

Power consumption (TDP)

29 Watt

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.00

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Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3, GDDR2

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

700 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

-

OpenGL

3.3

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Shader Model

4.0

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Vulkan

N/A

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