Quadro CX: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro CX provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.27% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro CX sales 11 November 2008 at a recommended price of $1,999. This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1536 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro CX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 916 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.02 | |
| Power efficiency | 1.17 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | |
| GPU code name | GT200B | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 11 November 2008 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,999 | of 34,999 (B200 SXM6) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
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Detailed specifications
Quadro CX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro CX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 192 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 602 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 38.53 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.4623 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 24 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 64 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 192 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro CX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro CX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1536 MB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 76.8 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro CX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Quadro CX, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.3 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro CX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro CX is FirePro W2100, which is slower by 4% and lower by 13 positions in our ranking.
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