Quadro T600 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated297
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data31.98
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGT200BTU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date15 January 2009 (15 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores240896
Core clock speed648 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1410 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)204 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate51.8478.96
Floating-point processing power0.7085 TFLOPS2.527 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8056

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1242 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth159.0 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.37.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 January 2009 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 204 Watt 40 Watt

T600 Mobile has an age advantage of 12 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 358.3% more advanced lithography process, and 410% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and Quadro T600 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition is a desktop card while Quadro T600 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
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