Quadro FX 5600 and GeForce 7900 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 5600 vs GeForce 7900 GS
Quadro FX 5600
541
GeForce 7900 GS
261
Quadro FX 5600
GeForce 7900 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G80
G71
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2007
May 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
-
Power consumption (TDP)
171 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.40
9.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
42.24 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A