NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
835
0.71
Value for money (0-100)
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Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
G84
Code name
GF108
Desktop
Type
Laptop
17 April 2007 (14 years ago)
Release date
6 December 2011 (10 years ago)
$159
Launch price (MSRP)
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$113 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$1121
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Value for money
0.02
G84
GPU code name
N13P-GL/GL2
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

32
Pipelines
96
540 MHz
Core clock speed
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289 million
Transistor count
585 million
80 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 / 28 nm
47 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
8.6 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
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76.16 gflops
Floating-point performance
253.4 gflops
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CUDA cores
96
32
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
289 million
Number of transistors
585 million
47 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
33 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
170 mm
Length
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None
Supplementary power connectors
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Laptop size
medium sized
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SLI options
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Bus support
PCI Express 2.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
DDR3\GDDR5
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
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700 MHz
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
22.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Shared memory
-
256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
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HDCP
+
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Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
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HDMI
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
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CUDA
+
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Optimus
+
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3D Blu-Ray
+
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DirectX 11
DirectX 11
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3D Vision / 3DTV Play
+
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DirectCompute
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
N/A
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.1
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DirectX 11.2
12 API

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Cheaper ($113 (0.7x MSRP) vs $1121)

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

1.94% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (96 vs 32)

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 / 28 nm vs 80 nm)

Less power consumption (33 Watt vs 47 Watt)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M .

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT versus NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M performance benchmarks comparison

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