NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS videocard review

GeForce 8600M GS videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 1 May 2007. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G86.

Core clock speed - 450 MHz. Texture fill rate - 3.6 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 28.8 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 210 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 20 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3, GDDR2. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 12.8 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

1095 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

1095.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	70
PassMark - G2D Mark	35
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1095 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1095.000 Fps

Games performance

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	42.67
Medium, 1024x768	14.48
High, 1024x768	7.89

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	126.10
Medium, 640x480	116.40
High, 800x600	101.10
Ultra, 1024x768	64.60

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

316.80

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G86
Launch date	1 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1650
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	210 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, GDDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0