Quadro FX 1800 and GeForce 7900 GTO - video card comparison
Quadro FX 1800
GeForce 7900 GTO
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G94
G71
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
October 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
176 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
59 Watt
81 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.60
15.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
768 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
42.24 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A