Quadro FX 580 and GT215 - video card comparison

Quadro FX 580

GT215

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

G96C

GT215

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2009

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

450 MHz

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Floating-point performance

72 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

314 million

727 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

96

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

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Texture fill rate

7.200

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

1.1

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4