GeForce 9800M GT and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800M GT vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 9800M GT
392
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 9800M GT
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
NB9E-GT2
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
500 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
76.16 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
32
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.00
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A