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GeForce 8600M GT

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 1.19% (503rd of 634)

Based on 1,507 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 0407 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Poor: 1%Average: 1.19% 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) 4.72fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 3.73fps

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 1,507 samples)
Rank 5031.19%
Min Avg Max
1.54 Lighting 4.72 5.45
2.89 Reflection 7.97 9.2
1.2 Parallax 1.85 2.2
1.23% 4.85 fps
Min Avg Max
0.7 MRender 5.14 8.8
2.85 Gravity 3.73 4.8
0.94 Splatting 5.43 7.36
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 01F2) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.1
1.46% Terrible
Lighting 5.2
Reflection 8.9
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.33 fps
MRender 6
Gravity 4.7
Splatting 5
2% 5.23 fps
Dell(1028 01F2) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 341.74
1.21% Terrible
Lighting 4.7
Reflection 8.6
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.07 fps
MRender 5.8
Gravity 3.6
Splatting 5.3
1% 4.9 fps
Dell(1028 01F1) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.1
1.15% Terrible
Lighting 5.1
Reflection 8.7
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.23 fps
MRender 4.6
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 4.7
1% 4.33 fps
Dell(1028 01F1) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.1
1.14% Terrible
Lighting 5.2
Reflection 8.7
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.27 fps
MRender 4.4
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 5.4
1% 4.5 fps
Dell(1028 0229) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 341.92
1.12% Terrible
Lighting 5.1
Reflection 8.5
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.17 fps
MRender 4
Gravity 3.7
Splatting 5
1% 4.23 fps
Dell(1028 01F2) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 342.1
0.62% Terrible
Lighting 5.1
Reflection 8.8
Parallax 1.9
1% 5.27 fps
MRender 6.6
Gravity 0.6
Splatting 7.3
1% 4.83 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 23,745,478 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 1,507 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) 10% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0228) 9% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 0121) 9% 1% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0229) 7% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1515) 4% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 4327) 4% 1% ± 0%
Acer(1025 011E) 4% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A3) 3% 1% ± 0%
Compal(14C0 0025) 3% 1% ± 0%
Sony(104D 9016) 2% 1% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00A0) 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%
Device(1631 C20E) 0% 1% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D C031) 0% 1% ± 0%
Legend(17AA 3D7B) 0% 1% ± 0%
Quanta(152D 0770) 0% 1% ± 0%
Device(1A46 1402) 0% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 1632) 0% 2% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 11%
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Desktop
Desktop 26%
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Workstation
Workstation 13%
Tree trunk

System: Dell XPS M1530

CPU
Core2 Duo T9300Intel  $67Bench 20%, 2,374 samples61x
Core2 Duo T8300Intel  $27Bench 19%, 1,756 samples39x
Core2 Duo T8100Intel  $78Bench 17%, 1,718 samples36x
GPU
GeForce 8600M GTNvidiaBench 1%, 1,507 samples175x
SSD
A400 120GBKingston  $22Bench 60%, 65,334 samples6x
A400 240GBKingston  $32Bench 64%, 96,051 samples5x
Extreme 120GBSanDisk  $169Bench 68%, 7,219 samples4x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 19%, 275,905 samples159x
3GBUnknownBench 15%, 52,482 samples43x
2x1GBUnknownBench 14%, 48,384 samples17x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 26% - Poor Total price: $89

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Excellent

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

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