NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7600 / 7700 for laptops and technically a higher clocked 8400M GT.. The performance is slightly above the 7600 / 7700 and therefore it can represent current games fluently. For DirectX 10 effects, the power of the card is not sufficient. Current demanding games like Crysis are only playable with the lowest settings.
8600M is one of the first-laptop-GPUs, which support DirectX 10 and accelerate the H.264-decoding of HD-movies. In comparison the the 8600M GT the GS version features less video options. > PureVideo Product Comparison
The particularity of this video card are the "Unified Shader". Pixel- and vertex-shaders do not exist any more but 16 of the so called stream processors do the graphic work (which up to now pixel- and vertex shaders did).
GeForce 8600M Series
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| Codename | G84M | |||||||||
| Architecture | G8x | |||||||||
| Pipelines | 16 - unified | |||||||||
| Core Speed | 600 MHz | |||||||||
| Shader Speed | 1200 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Speed | 700 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | |||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR3, GDDR2 | |||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 512 MB | |||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||
| API | DirectX 10, Shader 4.0 | |||||||||
| Power Consumption | 20 Watt | |||||||||
| Transistor Count | 289 Million | |||||||||
| technology | 80 nm | |||||||||
| Features | Shader Taktfrequenz 1200 MHz, PureVideo Technologie (H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, WMV9 Decodierbeschleunigung), HDCP-fähig, PowerMizer 7.0 Energieverwaltung (dynamisches umschalten zwischen Leistung und Energiesparen), HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting), designed für Windows Vista, 16x Vollbild AA, 16x winkelunabhängiges AF, 128-Bit HDR Ausleuchtung mit AA, Dual-Link DVI Ausgänge für Auflösungen von TFT bis zu 2560x1600, PCI-E 16x, OpenGL 2.1, Gigathread Technologie | |||||||||
| Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 09.06.2007 | |||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.nvidia.de | |||||||||
- Average benchmark valuesThe following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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| Crysis - GPU Benchmark | 42.67 | 14.48 | 7.89 | |||
| Crysis - CPU Benchmark | 38.11 | 14.26 | 7.43 | |||
| Command and Conquer III | 20 | |||||
| F.E.A.R. | 290 | 86 | 45 | |||
| Doom 3 | 123 | 116 | 98 | 67 | ||
| Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo | 318 | |||||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 2 2 | 2 2 | 3 1 1 1 | 1 | | |
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
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