NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM 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 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740 OEM +731%

0.773 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.048 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

32.19 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

772.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

32.19 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

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

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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