Quadro CX and FireGL V8600 - video card comparison
Quadro CX
FireGL V8600
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GT200B
R600
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
November 2008
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
602 MHz
688 MHz
Floating-point performance
462.3 gflops
440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
320
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
159 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.53
11.01
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1736 MHz
Memory bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
111.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.3
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A