Quadro 2000 and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
Quadro 2000
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF106
G92
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
625 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
96
Power consumption (TDP)
62 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.00
27.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2600 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
41.6 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A