NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 49W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 730 +253%

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G84

GF108-400-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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