NVIDIA GeForce 840A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce 840A

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 840A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 840A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 840A +2875%

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 840A

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 800A

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

384

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.21 billion

Unknown

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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