
Quadro FX 580 and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 580 vs GeForce FX 5500
Quadro FX 580
166
GeForce FX 5500
8
Quadro FX 580
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G96C
NV34 B1
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2009
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
72 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
7.200
1.080
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0a
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A