GeForce 8600M GT: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce 8600M GT is the oldest chip anywhere in this catalog's scored ranking — a 2007 part from NVIDIA's first unified-shader mobile generation. This guide covers its 11 recorded game benchmarks at 1080p and its single catalog host.

Where the 8600M GT sits in 2026

The composite ranks it #337 of 341 (score 0.4). The neighbors: HD 6470M (#334, 0.5), GT 230M (#335, 0.5) and NVS 3100M (#336, 0.5) above; the HD 6320 (#338, 0.4), Mobility HD 4530 (#339, 0.4) and its own halved sibling 8400M GS (#340, 0.2) below. Four places from the bottom — with a nineteen-year gap to the top of the table.

What the chip brings

The record lists 32 CUDA cores, DDR2 memory, an 80nm process, a 20W envelope and 0.06 TFLOPS. Public benchmark: PassMark 163. The 80nm node and DDR2 are the giveaway generation markers — this was mid-2000s silicon that helped laptops survive the transition to Windows Vista's desktop effects.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: legacy ceilings (CS:GO/Overwatch 240, GTA V/PUBG 140), Valorant 24, Dota 2 10, The Witcher 3 5, Forza Horizon 4 4, Counter-Strike 2 2, Fortnite 2, Cyberpunk 2077 1. The bottom-tier baseline with the older cluster's one-frame discount — the same rows the 4530 reads, in the same order.

Laptops that carry it

One host: the Dell Inspiron 1720 — the 17-inch desktop replacement of 2007-08, recorded without a price. A big chassis built to justify a big screen in an era before integrated graphics could drive one properly.

Bottom line

The 8600M GT holds the "oldest record in the ranking" title on these pages: 32 cores, 80nm, DDR2, and a table that bottoms out with everything else from that stratum. Its single 17-inch host is a collector's item now — this page is the reference card for it.