GeForce GT 240M and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 240M vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GT 240M
219
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce GT 240M
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N10P-GS
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
April 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
550 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
116.16 gflops
76.16 gflops
Gigaflops
174
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
32
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-