FirePro D300 and Quadro FX 1800 - video card comparison

FirePro D300

Quadro FX 1800

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

G94

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

March 2009

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

850 MHz

550 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,176 gflops

176 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

505 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

64

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

59 Watt

Texture fill rate

68.00

17.60

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

768 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

162.6 GB/s

38.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A