NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT videocard review
GeForce 8600M GT videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 31 December 2007. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G84.
Core clock speed - 475 MHz. Texture fill rate - 7.6 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 60.8 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 289 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 - 22.4 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.
Benchmarks
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| GFXBench 4.0 T-Rex |
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| Name | Value |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 113 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 28 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex | 1267 Frames |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex | 1267.000 Fps |
Games performance
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
| Low, 1024x768 | 43.80 |
| Medium, 1024x768 | 18.60 |
| High, 1024x768 | 9.80 |
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
| Medium, 1024x768 | 28.00 |
| High, 1024x768 | 12.50 |
Doom 3 (2004)
| Low, 640x480 | 138.40 |
| Medium, 640x480 | 125.95 |
| High, 800x600 | 114.35 |
| Ultra, 1024x768 | 78.15 |
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)
| High, 1024x768 | 365.20 |
Specifications (specs)
Essentials |
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| Architecture | Tesla |
| Code name | G84 |
| Launch date | 31 December 2007 |
| Place in performance rating | 1649 |
| Type | Laptop |
Technical info |
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| Core clock speed | 475 MHz |
| Floating-point performance | 60.8 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm |
| Pipelines | 32 |
| Texture fill rate | 7.6 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 20 Watt |
| Transistor count | 289 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | MXM-II |
| Laptop size | medium sized |
API support |
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| DirectX | 10.0 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB |
| Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR3, GDDR2 |
| Shared memory | 0 |
Technologies |
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| Gigathread technology | |
| HDCP-capable | |
| HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting) | |
| PCI-E 16x | |
| PowerMizer 7.0 | |