NVIDIA Quadro K600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K600 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual 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 K600

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K600

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 95% higher core clock speed: 876 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 2x 128 MB
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 1782 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2013 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	876 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 2x 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1782 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 2x 3.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 14.02 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 3.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 14.02 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K600	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual
PassMark - G3D Mark	728
PassMark - G2D Mark	278
Geekbench - OpenCL	1830
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	118.389
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	7.921
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	9.393
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1227
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1745
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2261
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1227
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1745
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2261

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K600	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK107	NV43 A2
Launch date	1 March 2013	12 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	1367	not rated
Price now	$78.99
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	11.66
Technical info
Core clock speed	876 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	336.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	14.02 GTexel / s	2x 3.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	146 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	160 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x 128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.51 GB / s	2x 16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1782 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3