NVIDIA Quadro 600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 600 and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a 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 600

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 600

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 640 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 526 vs 79

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 December 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	640 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	526 vs 79

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 308 vs 232

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	308 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

526

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

308

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 600	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
PassMark - G3D Mark	526	79
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	308
Geekbench - OpenCL	2100
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	5.617
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	185.752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.526
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	16.137
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	899
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1255
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2037
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	899
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1255
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2037

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 600	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	C78
Launch date	13 December 2010	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$179
Place in performance rating	1471	559
Price now	$299
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	2.80
Technical info
Core clock speed	640 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	245.76 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	10.24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3