Quadro FX 5600 and FirePro S9300 X2 - video card comparison

Quadro FX 5600

FirePro S9300 X2

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

G80

Capsaicin

Market segment

Workstation

Release date

March 2007

March 2016

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

600 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

345.6 gflops

2x 6,963 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

681 million

8,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

171 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

217.6

Memory type

GDDR3

HBM

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131