NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A +520%

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

2

16

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GF117

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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