ATI Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition vs Quadro 600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1062not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.06no data
Power efficiency2.38no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameGF108R423
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 December 2010 (14 years ago)28 October 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores96no data
Core clock speed640 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors585 million160 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.248.000
Floating-point processing power0.2458 TFLOPSno data
ROPs816
TMUs1616

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
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s32 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 December 2010 28 October 2005
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

Quadro 600 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 600 and Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 600 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition is a desktop one.

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NVIDIA Quadro 600
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