GeForce 9600 GTX vs Quadro M4000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	314	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.58	no data
Power efficiency	9.92	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GM204	G92
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	29 June 2015 (9 years ago)	27 May 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$791	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	1664	96
Core clock speed	773 MHz	580 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	754 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	140 Watt
Texture fill rate	80.39	27.84
Floating-point processing power	2.573 TFLOPS	0.2784 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	16
TMUs	104	48

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 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
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	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 192 GB/s	44.8 GB/s

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	4x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
High-Performance Video I/O6	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	6.4	4.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	5.2	1.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 June 2015	27 May 2009
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	140 Watt

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