NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G84 G84
GPU variant G84-303-A2
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 289 million 289 million
Die size 169 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 17th, 2007 Sep 12th, 2007
Generation GeForce 8 Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 159 USD 699 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 183 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 540 MHz 460 MHz
Shader clock 1190 MHz 920 MHz
Memory clock 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 22.40 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32 32
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 8 8
SM count 4 4
Cache L2 32 KB 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.320 GPixel/s 3.680 GPixel/s
Texture rate 8.640 GTexel/s 7.360 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 76.16 GFLOPS 58.88 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 170 mm 6.7 inches 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 47 W 42 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P402, P403 P588
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

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