Quadro FX 580 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 580 vs GeForce 8600 GT
Quadro FX 580
166
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Quadro FX 580
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G96C
G84
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2009
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
450 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
72 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
32
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.200
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 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
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A