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GeForce 8600M GT

GeForce 8600M GT
BENCHMARKS (2,041)
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Effective Speed Effective 3D Speed -12,715%Average Score Lighting -16,151%, Reflection -8,479%, MRender -12,167%, Gravity -17,052%Overclocked Score Lighting -14,723%, Reflection -6,628%, MRender -7,370%, Gravity -15,570%Value & Sentiment User Rating -90%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves Parallax -35,829%, Splatting -5,061%, Parallax -45,452%, Splatting -7,023%, Age -356%

Average Bench: 1.31% (592^nd of 714)

Based on 2,041 user benchmarks. Device: 10DE 0407 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Poor: 1%Average: 1.31% Great: 2%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT averaged 98.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 1.49fps

Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 2.07fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT is just 0.81%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 2.74fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 0.56fps

Average Bench

(Based on 2,041 samples)

Rank 5921.31%

Min	Avg	Max
0.97	Lighting 1.49	1.8
0.35	Reflection 2.74	4.5
0.3	Parallax 0.56	0.8
1.2% 1.6 fps

Min	Avg	Max
0.4	MRender 2.22	3.9
0.63	Gravity 1.2	1.4
0.43	Splatting 2.07	3.04
1.5% 1.83 fps

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The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

GBR-User, 19 months ago.GeForce 8600M GT

Dell(1028 01F2) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01

1.45% Terrible

Lighting 1.8

Reflection 4.6

Parallax 0.3

2% 2.23 fps

MRender 2

Gravity 1.2

Splatting 1.9

1% 1.7 fps

FRA-User, 19 months ago.GeForce 8600M GT

Dell(1028 0229) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 327.02

1.34% Terrible

Lighting 1.5

Reflection 3.4

Parallax 0.7

1% 1.87 fps

MRender 2.7

Gravity 1.2

Splatting 1.9

2% 1.93 fps

POL-User, 20 months ago.GeForce 8600M GT

Dell(1028 022E) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01

1.33% Terrible

Lighting 1.4

Reflection 4.5

Parallax 0.7

1% 2.2 fps

MRender 4

Gravity 1.2

Splatting 1.4

2% 2.2 fps

HUN-User, 19 months ago.GeForce 8600M GT

Dell(1028 0228) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01

1.15% Terrible

Lighting 1.3

Reflection 3.2

Parallax 0.6

1% 1.7 fps

MRender 1.8

Gravity 1.3

Splatting 1.7

1% 1.6 fps

TUR-User, 20 months ago.GeForce 8600M GT

Dell(1028 01F1) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01

1.07% Terrible

Lighting 1.3

Reflection 4.5

Parallax 0.7

1% 2.17 fps

MRender 1.6

Gravity 1.3

Splatting 1.2

1% 1.37 fps

MLT-User, 19 months ago.GeForce 8600M GT

Dell(1028 01F2) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01

0.92% Terrible

Lighting 1.3

Reflection 0.3

Parallax 0.6

1% 0.73 fps

MRender 0.4

Gravity 1.2

Splatting 0.8

1% 0.8 fps

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Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Dell(1028 01F2)	20%	1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 022E)	17%	1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 01F1)	11%	1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0121)	9%	1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0228)	8%	1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0229)	5%	1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 011E)	4%	1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 4327)	3%	1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1515)	3%	1% ± 0%
Compal(14C0 0025)	3%	1% ± 0%
Device(1631 C20E)	2%	1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A3)	2%	1% ± 0%
Sony(104D 9016)	2%	1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A0)	2%	1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0129)	2%	1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1618)	1%	1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A4)	1%	2% ± 0%
Toshiba(1179 FF00)	1%	1% ± 0%
Device(1631 C20D)	1%	1% ± 0%
Toshiba(1179 0001)	1%	1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1632)	1%	1% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D C519)	0%	1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1588)	0%	1% ± 0%
Device(1A46 1402)	0%	1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0145)	0%	1% ± 0%
Quanta(152D 0770)	0%	1% ± 0%
Device(1854 0119)	0%	1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 3FAD)	0%	1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 015E)	0%	2% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D C031)	0%	2% ± 0%

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Desktop 36%

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Workstation 2%

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System: Dell XPS M1530

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Core2 Duo T8100Intel $78Bench 35%, 2,639 samples	5x
Core2 Duo T8300Intel $27Bench 37%, 2,604 samples	4x
Core2 Duo T7500Intel $90Bench 35%, 4,281 samples	4x

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GeForce 8600M GTNvidiaBench 1%, 2,041 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 120GBSamsung $80Bench 96%, 69,224 samples	2x
830 128GBSamsung $109Bench 63%, 37,250 samples	1x
840 Evo 120GBSamsung $85Bench 91%, 104,444 samples	1x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	16x
3GBUnknownBench 14%, 81,553 samples	4x
2x1GBUnknownBench 14%, 68,489 samples	3x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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GeForce 8600M GT

Average Bench: 1.31% (592nd of 714)

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Terrible average bench

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Excellent consistency

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Average Bench

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Average Bench: 1.31% (592^nd of 714)