NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 730M 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 33W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730M +804%

0.552 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce GT 730M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

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

384

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.752 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.01 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

552.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

23.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK208

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

GT 730M

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

CUDA

3.5

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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