Quadro FX 360M and GeForce 8600M GT SLI - video card comparison

Quadro FX 360M

GeForce 8600M GT SLI

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

G8x (2007−2008)

GPU code name

NB8M-GLM

NB8P-GS

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Laptop

Release date

May 2007

October 2007

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Core clock speed

400 MHz

475 MHz

Floating-point performance

25.6 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

598 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

64

Power consumption (TDP)

17 Watt

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.200

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Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3, GDDR2

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MHz

700 MHz

Memory bandwidth

9.6 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

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OpenGL

3.3

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Shader Model

4.0

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Vulkan

N/A

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