Quadro K620 vs ATI FirePro V8700

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated597
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data2.61
Power efficiencyno data8.82
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameRV770GM107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date11 September 2008 (16 years ago)22 July 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 $189.89

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores800384
Core clock speed750 MHz1058 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1124 MHz
Number of transistors956 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt41 Watt
Texture fill rate30.0026.98
Floating-point processing power1.2 TFLOPS0.8632 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4024

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 2.0 x16
Length254 mm160 mm
Width2-slot1" (2.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed850 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth108.8 GB/sUp to 29 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 DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displaysno data4

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Prono data+
Mosaicno data+
nView Desktop Managementno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.5
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 September 2008 22 July 2014
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 41 Watt

Quadro K620 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 268.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V8700 and Quadro K620. We've got no test results to judge.


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