NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 745 OEM and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 OEM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 55W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
+752%
0.793 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2014
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
384
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
24.79 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
55W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
G84
GM107-220-A2
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Maxwell
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
148 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
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
