NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

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

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M +903%

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

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

-

16

Shading Units

192

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GK208

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

GT 720M

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

87 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

3.5

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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