Quadro FX 3500 and Quadro 6000 SDI - video card comparison

Quadro FX 3500

Quadro 6000 SDI

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

G71

GF100

Market segment

Workstation

Release date

May 2006

July 2011

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

450 MHz

574 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,027.7 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

448

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

231 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.000

32.14

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1320 MHz

2988 MHz

Memory bandwidth

42.24 GB/s

143.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A