GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
N16E-GXX SLI
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
June 2007
Interface
-
MXM-II
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1228 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1126 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
10400 Million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
16
Power consumption (TDP)
330 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
3.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12_1
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
3.3
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A