GeForce GTX 460M and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 460M vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTX 460M
1283
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce GTX 460M
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N11E-GS
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2010
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
675 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
518.4 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
32
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.1 billion/sec
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
60.0 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
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A