NVIDIA Quadro 600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 600 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 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 8800 GTS 320

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 600

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 640 MHz vs 513 MHz
Around 8% better floating-point performance: 245.76 gflops vs 228.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 143 Watt
3.2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 320 MB
Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1584 MHz
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 526 vs 412
7.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 232 vs 31

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 December 2010 vs 12 February 2007
Core clock speed	640 MHz vs 513 MHz
Floating-point performance	245.76 gflops vs 228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 143 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 320 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1584 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	526 vs 412
PassMark - G2D Mark	232 vs 31

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 12.31 GTexel / s vs 10.24 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	12.31 GTexel / s vs 10.24 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

526

412

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 600	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	526	412
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	31
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 8800 GTS 320
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G80
Launch date	13 December 2010	12 February 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	$269
Place in performance rating	1471	1640
Price now	$299
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	2.80
Technical info
Core clock speed	640 MHz	513 MHz
Floating-point performance	245.76 gflops	228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	96	96
Texture fill rate	10.24 GTexel / s	12.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt	143 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	681 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	320 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	63.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1584 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3