Quadro T1000 vs GeForce 8600 GT

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	322
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	23.35
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	G84	TU117
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	27 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$159	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	32	no data
Core clock speed	540 MHz	1395 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1455 MHz
Number of transistors	289 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	47 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	8.640	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.07616 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	no data
TMUs	16	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	170 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	no data
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-
CUDA	1.1	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 April 2007	27 May 2019
Chip lithography	80 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	47 Watt	50 Watt

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