Quadro FX 500 and Quadro4 980 XGL - video card comparison
Quadro FX 500
Quadro4 980 XGL
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name
NV34 A1
NV28 A2
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
May 2003
November 2002
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
270 MHz
300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
45 million
36 million
Texture fill rate
1.080
2.400
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
480 MHz
650 MHz
Memory bandwidth
7.68 GB/s
10.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
8.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
N/A