
Quadro FX 1500 and FirePro V4800 - video card comparison
Quadro FX 1500
FirePro V4800
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G71
Redwood
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
April 2006
April 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
325 MHz
775 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
620.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
400
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
69 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.800
15.50
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
40 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A