NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 64W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 740
+720%
0.763 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
May 2014
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.944 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.78 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
762.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
31.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
64W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GK107
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GK107-425-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
