GeForce GTS 250M and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250M vs GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce GTS 250M
570
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce GTS 250M
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
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
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
38.08 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
16
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.00
4.320
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-