Quadro 600 and Radeon X1800 XT - video card comparison

Quadro 600

Radeon X1800 XT

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

GF108

R520

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

October 2005

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

640 MHz

600 MHz

Floating-point performance

245.76 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

321 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

-

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

113 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.24

9.600

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

44.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

2.1

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A