GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce GTX 745 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
G84
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2014
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1033 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
793.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
384
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
55 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
24.79
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
5.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126