NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 730A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 730A +820%

0.552 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730A

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

23.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

552.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

23.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

G84

GT 730M

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

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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