NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM +1934%

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK106

-

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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