
FireGL V3600 and Quadro FX 550 - video card comparison
FireGL V3600
Quadro FX 550
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
RV630
NV43 A2
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
June 2007
April 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
360 MHz
Floating-point performance
144 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
390 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
120
-
Power consumption (TDP)
73 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.800
2.880
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A