GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce GT 730 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce GT 730
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce GT 730
860
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce GT 730
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G84
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2014
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
96
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
11.2 GT/s
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
25.6 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
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A