NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M +1742%

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

-

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G84

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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