HD Graphics 3000 and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score HD Graphics 3000 vs GeForce 8600 GS
HD Graphics 3000
262
GeForce 8600 GS
94
HD Graphics 3000
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
16
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.80
4.320
Memory type
System Shared
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A