NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740A
+1155%
0.753 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Aug 2013
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 700A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.36 GTexel/s
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-
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
31.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
33W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GK208
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
GT 740M
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
169 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
1.1
CUDA
3.5
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
