Quadro FX 1000 and Radeon R7 250XE - video card comparison

Quadro FX 1000

Radeon R7 250XE

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

NV30

Cape Verde

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

January 2003

August 2014

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

None

Core clock speed

300 MHz

860 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,101 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

125 million

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.400

34.40

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MHz

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

9.6 GB/s

72 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

HDMI

DirectX

9.0a

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131