GeForce GTX 560M and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 560M vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTX 560M
1281
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce GTX 560M
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N12E-GS
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
April 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
2-way
+
Core clock speed
775 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
595.2 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)
75 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.8 billion/sec
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
Up to 192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 60 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
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
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-