NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 64W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 +903%

0.763 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GT 740

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

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

7.944 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.78 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

762.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

31.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

64W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK107

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GK107-425-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 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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