Quadro FX 3800 and FireGL V8650 - video card comparison

Quadro FX 3800

FireGL V8650

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GT200B

R600

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

March 2009

May 2007

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

600 MHz

688 MHz

Floating-point performance

462.3 gflops

440.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

720 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

320

Power consumption (TDP)

108 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

38.40

11.01

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

1736 MHz

Memory bandwidth

51.2 GB/s

111.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

1.3

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A