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GeForce 8600M GT

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 1.2% (496th of 627)

Based on 1,476 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 0407 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Poor: 1%Average: 1.2% Great: 2%

Popular builds with this GPU

Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT averaged 98.8% 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) 4.73fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 3.74fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT is just 0.74%. 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) 7.97fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 1.85fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,476 samples)
Rank 4961.2%
Min Avg Max
1.84 Lighting 4.73 5.4
2.8 Reflection 7.97 9.1
1.2 Parallax 1.85 2.2
1.23% 4.85 fps
Min Avg Max
0.7 MRender 5.15 8.8
3 Gravity 3.74 4.76
0.94 Splatting 5.41 7.3
1.2% 4.77 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Dell(1028 022E) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 331.65
1.47% Terrible
Lighting 5.3
Reflection 9
Parallax 2.5
1% 5.6 fps
MRender 9.3
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 6.9
2% 6.63 fps
Sony(104D 9016) 512MB
Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1
1.43% Terrible
Lighting 5.4
Reflection 8.9
Parallax 2.1
1% 5.47 fps
MRender 8.7
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 6.7
1% 6.37 fps
Dell(1028 0228) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 327.2
1.4% Terrible
Lighting 5.1
Reflection 8.7
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.23 fps
MRender 8.3
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 5.3
1% 5.77 fps
Dell(1028 01F2) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 327.2
1.36% Terrible
Lighting 5
Reflection 8.8
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.23 fps
MRender 7.7
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 4.8
1% 5.4 fps
Acer(1025 011E) 512MB
Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1
1.05% Terrible
Lighting 5.1
Reflection 7.9
Parallax 2.2
1% 5.07 fps
MRender 3
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 4.6
1% 3.77 fps
MSI(1462 3FAD) 256MB
Driver: nvd3dum.dll Ver. 8.17.12.5741
0.69% Terrible
Lighting 2.8
Reflection 4.4
Parallax 1.1
1% 2.77 fps
MRender 3.5
Gravity 2
Splatting 2.7
1% 2.73 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 22,245,215 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 1,476 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Dell(1028 022E) 19% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 01F2) 18% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 01F1) 11% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0228) 9% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0121) 9% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0229) 6% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 011E) 4% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 4327) 4% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1515) 4% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A3) 3% 1% ± 0%
Compal(14C0 0025) 3% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A0) 2% 1% ± 0%
Sony(104D 9016) 2% 1% ± 0%
Toshiba(1179 0001) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1588) 1% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0129) 1% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 3FAD) 1% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A4) 1% 1% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D C519) 0% 1% ± 1%
Device(1631 C20D) 0% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 401B) 0% 1% ± 0%
Toshiba(1179 FF00) 0% 1% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D C031) 0% 1% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 3D7B) 0% 1% ± 0%
Device(1631 C20E) 0% 1% ± 0%
Quanta(152D 0770) 0% 1% ± 0%
Device(1A46 1402) 0% 1% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 11%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 27%
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Workstation
Workstation 13%
Tree trunk

System: Dell XPS M1530

CPU
Core2 Duo T9300Intel  $67Bench 20%, 2,315 samples59x
Core2 Duo T8300Intel  $27Bench 19%, 1,692 samples37x
Core2 Duo T8100Intel  $78Bench 17%, 1,666 samples35x
GPU
GeForce 8600M GTNvidiaBench 1%, 1,476 samples169x
SSD
Extreme 120GBSanDisk  $169Bench 67%, 6,330 samples4x
A400 120GBKingston  $22Bench 60%, 65,187 samples4x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $55Bench 105%, 507,744 samples4x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 21%, 273,549 samples152x
3GBUnknownBench 15%, 48,858 samples40x
2x1GBUnknownBench 14%, 44,717 samples17x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 11% - Very poor Total price: $236

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Excellent

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