NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

Score

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2004

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV41

G84-303-A2

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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