Quadro FX 560 and C79 - video card comparison

Quadro FX 560

C79

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

G73

C79

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2006

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

350 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

177 million

314 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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16

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

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Texture fill rate

4.200

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Memory type

GDDR3

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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

1200 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

19.2 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

11.1 (10_0)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

3.3

Shader Model

3.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP3