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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 has a GPU clock speed of 540 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 700 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 32 Stream Processors, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 960M, which comes with core speeds of 1096 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 47 Watts
GeForce GTX 960M 65 Watts
Difference: 18 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960M, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 64000 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (186%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be a lot (more or less 407%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 43840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 35200 (407%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is much (about 306%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 17536 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13216 (306%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 GeForce GTX 960M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2007 March 12 2015
Code Name G84 GM107
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1096 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 65 watts
Bandwidth 22400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 43840 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 17536 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 640
Texture Mapping Units 16 40
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 289 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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