GeForce GT 420M and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 420M vs GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce GT 420M
417
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N11P-GE
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
16
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.0 billion/sec
4.320
Memory type
(G)DDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A