Quadro FX 5600 and GeForce PCX 5950 - video card comparison

Quadro FX 5600

GeForce PCX 5950

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

G80

NV38

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2007

February 2004

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Core clock speed

600 MHz

475 MHz

Floating-point performance

345.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

681 million

135 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

Power consumption (TDP)

171 Watt

57 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

3.800

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

256 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

850 MHz

Memory bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

27.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0a

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

Shader Model

4.0

Vulkan

N/A