Quadro FX 470 vs FirePro 2270

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Cedar	C79
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	31 January 2011 (13 years ago)	12 September 2007 (16 years ago)
Current price	$218	$79

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	80	16
Core clock speed	600 MHz	580 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	314 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	38 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.800	4.640
Floating-point performance	96 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	170 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

1x DMS-59

2x DVI

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	5.0	4.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	31 January 2011	12 September 2007
Chip lithography	40 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	38 Watt

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