
GeForce GTX 460 and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce GTX 460
2330
GeForce 8600M GS
72
GeForce GTX 460
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
GF104
G84M
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
July 2010
June 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
907.2 gflops
28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
16
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.80
3.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.1
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A