NVIDIA Quadro 2000M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 2000M and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 2000M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 2000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 540 MHz
4.1x more texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
12x more pipelines: 192 vs 16
11.1x better floating-point performance: 422.4 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
8.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 778 vs 92
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 233 vs 100

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 January 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 16
Floating-point performance	422.4 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	778 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark	233 vs 100

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 55 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt vs 55 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 2000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

778

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

233

100

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 2000M	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	778	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	233	100
Geekbench - OpenCL	3411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	8.306
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	272.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.855
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.423
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	27.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1261
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2569
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1261
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2569

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 2000M	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF106	G84
Launch date	13 January 2011	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$46.56
Place in performance rating	1352	1354
Price now	$46.56
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	25.92
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	540 MHz
Floating-point performance	422.4 gflops	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	192	16
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s	4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	55 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0