Quadro2 Pro vs GeForce 505 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	GT216	NV15 A4
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	17 February 2013 (12 years ago)	22 March 2001 (24 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	24	no data
Core clock speed	615 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	486 million	25 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.380	0.8
Floating-point processing power	0.04949 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	4
TMUs	12	4
L2 Cache	64 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 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	168 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	DDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB/s	8 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	7.0
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.2
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.2	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 February 2013	22 March 2001
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	180 nm

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