GeForce 8600 GT and Quadro FX 5500 SDI - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Quadro FX 5500 SDI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
April 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
104 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
15.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1010 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
32.32 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
3x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A