
GeForce GTX 860M and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 860M vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTX 860M
3127
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce GTX 860M
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N15P-GX
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
April 2007
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
915 MHz
-
Core clock speed
797 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
1152 or 640
-
Floating-point performance
1,389 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
32
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
43.40
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Standard memory configuration
GDDR5
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
Ansel
+
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-