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    what's the difference between these 2 cards?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by compman91, Nov 27, 2007.

  1. compman91

    compman91 Notebook Guru

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    whats the difference between the 8600GS and 8600M GT? one barebone i looked at had all the same specs as another one, but they were priced differently because one barebone laptop had the 8600GS and the other the 8600M GT. is the GT better?
     
    compman91, Nov 27, 2007
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  2. Patrick

    Patrick Formerly beat spamers with stiks

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    The GT is way better. It's like 33% better or sumthing.
     
    Patrick, Nov 27, 2007
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    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    They're based off the same cores, however the GS has half the stream processors and texture units. To make up for this, the GS is clocked higher. In general, the GT will be about 35% faster in older games or on low settings in newer games. However on higher settings in newer shader intensive games, the GT can be over 50% more powerful.
     
    odin243, Nov 27, 2007
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  4. StormEffect

    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    As my fellow two forumites have already mentioned, the GS variant only has 16 stream processors while the GT variant has 32 stream processors. The GT, therefore, has much more to work with in terms of processing power, resulting in significant performance gains with the GT.
     
    StormEffect, Nov 27, 2007
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