NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 740M +2496%

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2013

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 700M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

384

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

31.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

31.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GK208

GPU Name

G86

GT 740M

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.02 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

87 mm²

Die Size

127 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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