Quadro FX 580 and Radeon HD 6450 OEM - video card comparison
Quadro FX 580
Radeon HD 6450 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G96C
Caicos
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2009
February 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
72 gflops
200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
160
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.200
5.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1066 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
8.528 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A