NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K4000 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K4000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 540 MHz
  • 6x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 8.6 billion / sec
  • 24x more pipelines: 768 vs 32
  • 16.3x better floating-point performance: 1,244 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
  • 8x more memory clock speed: 5616 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 20.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2721 vs 131
  • 10.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 424 vs 42
  • 8.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3651 vs 449
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3321 vs 1397
  • 8.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3651 vs 449
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3321 vs 1397
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s vs 8.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 768 vs 32
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2721 vs 131
PassMark - G2D Mark 424 vs 42
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3651 vs 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3321 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3651 vs 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3321 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

  • Around 70% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 80 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2721
131
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
424
42
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3651
449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3321
1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3651
449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3321
1397
Name NVIDIA Quadro K4000 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 2721 131
PassMark - G2D Mark 424 42
Geekbench - OpenCL 6674
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 427.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 23.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 61.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3651 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3321 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3651 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3321 1397
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 817

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro K4000 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK106 G84
Launch date 1 March 2013 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $1,269 $159
Place in performance rating 866 1621
Price now $225.65
Type Workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 14.81

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 540 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops 76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 768 32
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s 8.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 47 Watt
Transistor count 2,540 million 289 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 134.8 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Technologies

SLI