Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition vs NVS 310

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1183not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency2.25no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGF119G80
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date26 June 2012 (12 years ago)5 March 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 $2,999

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 cores48128
Core clock speed523 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors292 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt171 Watt
Texture fill rate4.18438.40
Floating-point processing power0.1004 TFLOPS0.3686 TFLOPS
ROPs424
TMUs832

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
Length156 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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1536 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed875 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth14 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 Connectors2x DisplayPort2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 June 2012 5 March 2007
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1536 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 171 Watt

NVS 310 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 755% lower power consumption.

FX 5600 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between NVS 310 and Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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