NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 47.04 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s
  • 6.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 96
  • 9.4x better floating-point performance: 1,505 gflops vs 160 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 7.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3383 vs 467
  • Around 85% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 1820
  • Around 85% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 1820
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 23 February 2008
Core clock speed 1096 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 47.04 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 96
Floating-point performance 1,505 gflops vs 160 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3383 vs 467
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 1820
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 1820

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M

  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 246
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 365 vs 246

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3383
467
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
246
365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
1820
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
1820
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3383 467
PassMark - G2D Mark 246 365
Geekbench - OpenCL 10898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 1820
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 1820
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1231

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Tesla
Code name GM107 G92
Launch date 13 March 2015 23 February 2008
Place in performance rating 773 776
Type Laptop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1176 MHz
Core clock speed 1096 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,505 gflops 160 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 640 96
Texture fill rate 47.04 GTexel / s 16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 70 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1
HDCP

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-HE
Laptop size medium sized large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 80 GB / s 51.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0