NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI
The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI are two single DirectX10 capable 8600M GT graphic cards in SLI combination. Depending on the particular games, the combination is about 0-60% faster than one single graphic card. DirectX9 games can be played with higher resolutions and high details fluently (if SLI is supported). DirectX 10 games are very demanding (e.g. Crysis and World n Conflict) and can't be played in highest DirectX 10 detail levels fluently, at moment. Perhaps, that will improve by later driver optimizing.
The 8600M is one of the best laptop-GPUs worldwide, which support DirectX 19 and H.264-decoding and accelerate HD-films.
A particularity of the graphic card are the "Unified Shaders" of ALUs (Arithmetic Logical Unit). There don't exist any more dedicated pixel- and vertex shaders but 32 so called Stream processors maintain the upcomming graphic work (which was done by the pixel and vertex Shaders, up to now). The advantage is that there is no idle time of the ALUs. The Stream processors of NVIDIA are 1-dimensional (1D) and can make one skalar operation per cloc with a MADD operation (addition and multiplication) and a MUL-operation (multiplication). Moreover, NVIDIA clocks the Shader-ALUs higher than the remaining chip.
The memory clock of each GeForce 8600M GT of the SLI combination depends on the implemented memory type: 400 MHz with GDDR2 and 700 MHz with GDDR3.
Compared with dektop graphic cards, the 8600M GT in SLI combination of the GDDR3 laptop version is scarcely below two 8600 GT SLI (each desktop card has a higher chip clock).
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce 8M |
| Codename | G84M |
| Pipelines | 64 - unified |
| Core Speed | 475 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 700 MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR3, GDDR2 |
| Max. Amount of Memory | 1024 MB |
| Shared Memory | no |
| DirectX | DirectX 10, Shader 4.0 |
| Current Consumption | 20 Watt |
| Transistors | 598 Million |
| Features | Two single graphic cards in SLI combination, Shader clock frequence 950 MHz, PureVideo technology (H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, WMV9 decoder acceleration), HDCP-capable, PowerMizer 7.0 energy management (dynamic switching between performance and energy saving), HDR (high dynamic-range lighting), designed for Windows Vista, 16x full image AA, 16x AF independent on angles, 128-bit HDR illumination with AA, Dual-Link DVI exits for TFT resolutions up to 2560x1600, PCI-E 16x, OpenGL 2.1, Gigathread technology |
| Notebook Size | large |
| Date of Announcement | 23.10.2007 |
| Information | memory clock:
DDR2 - 400 MHz DDR3 - 700 MHz |
| Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.nvidia.de/page/geforce_8M_tec... |
benchmarks
3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 26684, avg: 26684, max: 26684 points ... More Details
3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 21150, avg: 21150, max: 21150 points ... More Details
3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 12932, avg: 12932, max: 12932 points ... More Details
3DMark 06:
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min: 6614, avg: 6832, max: 7050 points ... More Details
F.E.A.R.: - GPU min, CPU min 640x480
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min: 208, avg: 208, max: 208 fps ... More Details
F.E.A.R.: - GPU medium, CPU medium 800x600
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min: 30, avg: 30, max: 30 fps ... More Details
F.E.A.R.: - GPU: max, CPU: max 1024x768
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min: 29, avg: 29, max: 29 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - Low 640x480
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min: 159.8, avg: 160, max: 159.8 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - Medium 800x600
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min: 160.5, avg: 161, max: 160.5 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - High 800x600
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min: 154.9, avg: 155, max: 154.9 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - Ultra 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 138.4, avg: 138, max: 138.4 fps ... More Details
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card - Average benchmark values for this graphics cardBased on 12 benchmarks
| 3DMark 05in comparison | ||
| Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 (min) | 234 | |
| ... | ||
| NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX SLI | 10256 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX SLI | 10585 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS | 11777 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI | 12932 | |
| ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 | 13000 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M | 13176 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI | 13665 | |
| ... | ||
| NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI (max) | 17230 | |
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