GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile vs Quadro FX 1500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1246not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.46no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameG71GB203
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

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 coresno data8192
Core clock speed325 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors278 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate7.800512.0
Floating-point processing powerno data32.77 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs24256
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

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 1.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length173 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount256 MB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed625 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth40 GB/s1.01 TB/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 DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.8
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 175 Watt

FX 1500 has 169.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 5080 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1500 and GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1500 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500
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