Quadro FX 1500: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 1500 sales 20 April 2006 at a recommended price of $699 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 40 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 173 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 65 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 1500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	G71
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	20 April 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Current price	$159 (0.2x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

Quadro FX 1500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 1500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	325 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	278 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	7.800	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 1500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	173 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 1500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	40 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 1500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by Quadro FX 1500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	3.0
OpenGL	2.1	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 1500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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