Quadro FX 3800 and GeForce GTX 555 OEM - video card comparison

Quadro FX 3800

GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GT200B

GF114

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2009

May 2011

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Core clock speed

600 MHz

736 MHz

Floating-point performance

462.3 gflops

847.9 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

288

Power consumption (TDP)

108 Watt

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

35.33

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

3828 MHz

Memory bandwidth

51.2 GB/s

91.87 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

1.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A