NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM +731%

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK106

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

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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