NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M +1742%

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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