Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition vs FirePro V5900

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking744not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameCaymanG80
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date24 May 2011 (13 years ago)5 March 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,999

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 cores512128
Core clock speed600 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt171 Watt
Texture fill rate19.2038.40
Floating-point processing power0.6144 TFLOPS0.3686 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs3232

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length230 mm312 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s76.8 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 May 2011 5 March 2007
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1536 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 171 Watt

FirePro V5900 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 128% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V5900 and Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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