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GeForce 8600M GT

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 1.23% (530th of 652)

Based on 1,847 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 0407 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Poor: 1%Average: 1.23% Great: 1%

Popular builds with this GPU

Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT averaged 98.7% 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) 1.63fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 1.23fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT is just 0.59%. 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) 3.04fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 0.58fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,847 samples)
Rank 5301.23%
Min Avg Max
1.1 Lighting 1.63 1.9
1 Reflection 3.04 3.58
0.34 Parallax 0.58 0.72
1.3% 1.75 fps
Min Avg Max
0.41 MRender 2.32 4.05
0.68 Gravity 1.23 1.57
0.45 Splatting 2.29 3.17
1.17% 1.95 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Apple(106B 00A4) 512MB
Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.01
1.44% Terrible
Lighting 2.1
Reflection 5.9
Parallax 1
2% 3 fps
MRender 4.7
Gravity 0.8
Splatting 2.8
1% 2.77 fps
Asus(1043 1632) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01
1.2% Terrible
Lighting 1.6
Reflection 4.7
Parallax 0.3
1% 2.2 fps
MRender 1.6
Gravity 1.3
Splatting 2
1% 1.63 fps
Dell(1028 022E) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01
1.16% Terrible
Lighting 1.4
Reflection 2.1
Parallax 0.3
1% 1.27 fps
MRender 2.4
Gravity 1.3
Splatting 2.3
1% 2 fps
Acer(1025 011E) 512MB
Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.01
1.13% Terrible
Lighting 1.4
Reflection 3.3
Parallax 0.7
1% 1.8 fps
MRender 2.4
Gravity 1.2
Splatting 1.6
1% 1.73 fps
Dell(1028 01F1) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01
1.02% Terrible
Lighting 1.1
Reflection 4.6
Parallax 0.7
1% 2.13 fps
MRender 2.7
Gravity 1.2
Splatting 2.1
1% 2 fps
Dell(1028 022E) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.01
0.96% Terrible
Lighting 1.5
Reflection 5
Parallax 0.7
1% 2.4 fps
MRender 1.9
Gravity 0.6
Splatting 2
1% 1.5 fps
Asus(1043 1618) 512MB
Driver: nvd3dum.dll Ver. 9.18.13.4144
0.87% Terrible
Lighting 0.8
Reflection 3.2
Parallax 0.5
1% 1.5 fps
MRender 2.4
Gravity 1.2
Splatting 2
1% 1.87 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 38,294,120 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 1,847 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Dell(1028 01F2) 24% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 022E) 16% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0121) 10% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 01F1) 9% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0228) 7% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0229) 5% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 4327) 3% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1515) 3% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 011E) 3% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A0) 3% 1% ± 0%
Compal(14C0 0025) 2% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A3) 2% 1% ± 0%
Device(1631 C20E) 2% 1% ± 0%
Sony(104D 9016) 2% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A4) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1618) 1% 1% ± 0%
Toshiba(1179 0001) 1% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 3FAD) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1632) 1% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0129) 1% 1% ± 0%
Toshiba(1179 FF00) 0% 1% ± 0%
Device(1631 C20D) 0% 1% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D C031) 0% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1588) 0% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 401B) 0% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 015E) 0% 2% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 3D7B) 0% 1% ± 0%
Device(1A46 1402) 0% 1% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 2%
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Desktop
Desktop 39%
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Workstation
Workstation 2%
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System: Dell Inspiron 1720

CPU
Core2 Duo T8300Intel  $27Bench 39%, 2,119 samples20x
Core2 Duo T9300Intel  $80Bench 40%, 2,758 samples19x
Core2 Duo T7500Intel  $90Bench 36%, 3,292 samples12x
GPU
GeForce 8600M GTNvidiaBench 1%, 1,847 samples89x
SSD
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston  $59Bench 63%, 144,672 samples4x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston  $66Bench 54%, 231,285 samples4x
A400 240GBKingston  $32Bench 67%, 249,173 samples4x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 356,872 samples72x
3GBUnknownBench 15%, 65,492 samples26x
2x1GBUnknownBench 14%, 59,356 samples7x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 31% - Below average Total price: $86

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Excellent

2 years ago.

Nice card, can beat the gtx 1060 for lass then is price

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Average

4 days ago.

The 8600M-GT is the GPU that caused apple many problems in the late 2000's. MacBook Pro's that had this GPU were suddenly failing only months after purchase. Users with this GPU should make sure that they have the revised version of this GPU.

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