
FireGL V8650 and Quadro FX 5600 - video card comparison
FireGL V8650
Quadro FX 5600
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R600
G80
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
May 2007
March 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
688 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
440.3 gflops
345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
128
Power consumption (TDP)
-
171 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.01
38.40
Memory type
GDDR4
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1736 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.1 GB/s
76.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A