NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740 OEM +1934%

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.048 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

32.19 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

772.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

32.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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