Quadro FX 500 vs FirePro 2270

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1359	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.74	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Cedar	NV34 A1
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	31 January 2011 (14 years ago)	21 May 2003 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	80	no data
Core clock speed	600 MHz	270 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	4.800	1.080
Floating-point processing power	0.096 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	4
L1 Cache	8 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 KB	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	AGP 8x
Length	170 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	240 MHz
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB/s	7.68 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x DMS-59

1x DVI, 1x VGA

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	31 January 2011	21 May 2003
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm

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