GeForce FX 5800 Ultra vs Quadro 6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking556not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency2.34no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGF100NV30
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date10 December 2010 (14 years ago)6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,399 $399

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 cores448no data
Core clock speed574 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million125 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)204 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.144.000
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPSno data
ROPs484
TMUs568

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 x16AGP 8x
Length248 mm213 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x Molex

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 typeGDDR5GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount6 GB128 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed747 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.4 GB/s16 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 VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0a
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2010 6 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

Quadro 6000 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 6000 and GeForce FX 5800 Ultra. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 6000 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce FX 5800 Ultra is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 6000
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