FireGL V7200 and Quadro FX 1500 - video card comparison

FireGL V7200

Quadro FX 1500

Architecture

R400 (2004−2008)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

R480

G71

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

October 2005

April 2006

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Core clock speed

600 MHz

325 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

160 million

278 million

Power consumption (TDP)

-

65 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.600

7.800

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1300 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory bandwidth

41.6 GB/s

40 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

2.0

2.1

Shader Model

-

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A