NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 720 +229%

0.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

192

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.188 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

12.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

306.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

12.75 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

19W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK208B

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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