GeForce 8600M GS vs GeForce GTX 860M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8600M GS Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)
GeForce GTX 860M Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1085MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
624 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GS
29
GeForce GTX 860M
+4689%
1389
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1020 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1085 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
640
8
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.36 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.40 GTexel/s
28.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1389 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
43.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GM107
G86-770-A2
GPU Variant
N15P-GX-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
