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NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT is a video card and capable of DirectX 10. Technically, it has 32 Stream Processors like the 8600M GT, but the core-, shader- and memory clock is higher. Therefore the performance is somewhat above the 8600M GT (according advertisements of NVidia clearly better) and should be sufficient for all current games.

The particularity of this video card are the "Unified Shaders". Pixel- and vertex-shaders do not exist any more but 32 of the so called Stream processors do the graphic work (which up to now pixel- and vertex shaders did).

3DMark benchmarks show a promising performance on the level of a 7900 GTX. Because of the small 128 Bit memory bus, the performance looks worse in games (especially in high resolutions). Modern DirectX 10 games like Crysis can not be played in the highest resolutions.

The PureVideo video processor enables the chip to help decode HD videos in H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, and WMV9.

Some drivers called the 8700M GT NB8E-SE (880M GS).

ManufacturerNVIDIA
SeriesGeForce 8M
CodenameNB8E-SE
Pipelines32 - unified
Core Speed *625 MHz
Shader Speed *1250 MHz
Memory Speed *800 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory512 MB
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Current Consumption29 Watt
Transistors289 Million
technology80 nm
FeaturesShader clock frequence 1250 MHz, PureVideo technology (H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, WMV9 decoding acceleration), MPEG2, WMV9 decoding acceleration), HDCP-capable, PowerMizer 7.0 power management (dynamic switching between performance and energy economizing), HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting), designed for Windows Vista, 16x full screen AA, 16x AF independent of angles, 128-Bit HDR illumination with AA, Dual-Link DVI-D exits for resolutions of TFT up to 2560x1600, PCI-E 16x, OpenGL 2.1, Gigathread technology
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement12.06.2007
InformationSlot MXM-III und aufwärts, 80nm Herstellungsprozess
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_870...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 24463, avg: 26598, max: 30359 Points
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3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 13340, avg: 14816, max: 16577 Points
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3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 8484, avg: 9102, max: 9945 Points
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3DMark 06:
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      min: 4222, avg: 4717, max: 5410 Points
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 3586, avg: 3586, max: 3586 Points
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 24 benchmarks

Game Benchmarks

Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
74.9  fps
med.:
27.5  fps
high:
15.3  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
69.8  fps
med.:
26.8  fps
high:
14.2  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
World in Conflict - Benchmark
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
med.:
31  fps
high:
20  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Command and Conquer III
Command and Conquer III (2007)
high:
30  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
30 134 308 479 ~ 238 fps
med.:
25 31 95 169 ~ 80 fps
high:
28 30 51 53 ~ 41 fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
low:
108.8 132.2 164.6 197.8 ~ 151 fps
med.:
109 139 158.1 200 ~ 152 fps
high:
108.2 116.8 150 167.1 ~ 136 fps
ultra:
86.1 86.2 123.6 126.2 ~ 106 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)
high:
424.1 470.3 561.5 ~ 485 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List

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Toshiba Satellite X200-203 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 17.1")
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Toshiba Satellite X200-20s (Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 17.1")
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Toshiba Satellite X205 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 17.1")
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Toshiba Satellite X205-S9359 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 17.1")
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Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2009-11-19)