NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 720M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M 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 720M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

80 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M +727%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce 720M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/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

2.500 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

20.00 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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