Quadro FX 3800 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 3800 vs GeForce 8600 GT
Quadro FX 3800
821
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Quadro FX 3800
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GT200B
G84
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
600 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
462.3 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
32
Power consumption (TDP)
108 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.40
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A