HD Graphics 3000 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score HD Graphics 3000 vs GeForce 8600 GT
HD Graphics 3000
262
GeForce 8600 GT
127
HD Graphics 3000
GeForce 8600 GT
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
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
32
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.80
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A