Quadro FX 3000 and FireGL X3-256 - video card comparison
Quadro FX 3000
FireGL X3-256
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
NV35
R420
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
July 2003
August 2004
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x Molex
Core clock speed
400 MHz
491 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
160 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
57 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
5.892
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
908 MHz
Memory bandwidth
27.2 GB/s
29.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0b (9_2)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A