NVIDIA Quadro 600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 600 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 600

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher core clock speed: 640 MHz vs 530 MHz
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 96 vs 64
  • Around 45% better floating-point performance: 245.76 gflops vs 169.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 60 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 232 vs 57
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 December 2010 vs 1 November 2008
Core clock speed 640 MHz vs 530 MHz
Pipelines 96 vs 64
Floating-point performance 245.76 gflops vs 169.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 60 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 232 vs 57

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

  • Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 16 billion / sec vs 10.24 GTexel / s
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 555 vs 531
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2414 vs 2037
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2414 vs 2037
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 16 billion / sec vs 10.24 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 555 vs 531
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2414 vs 2037
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2414 vs 2037

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
531
555
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
232
57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2037
2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2037
2414
Name NVIDIA Quadro 600 NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 531 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 232 57
Geekbench - OpenCL 2117
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 2414
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 899
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1255
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2037 2414

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 600 NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G94
Launch date 13 December 2010 1 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Place in performance rating 1467 1468
Price now $299
Type Workstation Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 2.80

Technical info

Core clock speed 640 MHz 530 MHz
Floating-point performance 245.76 gflops 169.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 96 64
Texture fill rate 10.24 GTexel / s 16 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Gigaflops 254

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
Power management 8.0