NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 3450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 83W)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Score

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Quadro FX 3450

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2005

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

83W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV41

-

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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