FirePro V5900 and Quadro VX 200 - video card comparison

FirePro V5900

Quadro VX 200

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Cayman

G92

Market segment

Workstation

Release date

May 2011

January 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

600 MHz

450 MHz

Floating-point performance

614.4 gflops

252 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

754 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

112

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

19.20

25.20

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

51.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

3.3

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A