Quadro FX 1500 and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile - video card comparison

Quadro FX 1500

RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

G71

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

April 2006

February 2024

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

325 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

60 Watt (35 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

7.800

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

40 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

Shader Model

3.0

Vulkan

N/A