Quadro FX 500 and Thames - video card comparison

Quadro FX 500

Thames

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

NV34 A1

Thames

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

May 2003

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Interface

AGP 8x

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

270 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

480

Texture fill rate

1.080

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Memory type

DDR

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Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

480 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

7.68 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA

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DirectX

9.0a

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.4

Shader Model

-

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A