NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Quadro FX 540

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2004

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

250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV43

-

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

154 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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