NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 540 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
Around 68% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 47 Watt
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 145 vs 131
Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 71 vs 42

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 December 2009 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 47 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	145 vs 131
PassMark - G2D Mark	71 vs 42

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Around 95% higher texture fill rate: 8.6 billion / sec vs 4.4 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 32 vs 16
Around 73% better floating-point performance: 76.16 gflops vs 44 gflops
Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1397 vs 1023
Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1397 vs 1023

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	8.6 billion / sec vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	32 vs 16
Floating-point performance	76.16 gflops vs 44 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1397 vs 1023
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1397 vs 1023

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1023

1397

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1023

1397

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	145	131
PassMark - G2D Mark	71	42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1023	1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1023	1397
Geekbench - OpenCL	2855
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		449
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		449

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G84
Launch date	1 December 2009	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$169	$159
Place in performance rating	1616	1621
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	540 MHz
Floating-point performance	44 gflops	76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	16	32
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s	8.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	289 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	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI