Quadro FX 1700: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro FX 1700 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.49% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 1700 sales 12 September 2007 at a recommended price of $699. This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 512 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 42 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 1700: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1270 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 0.94 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G84 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 12 September 2007 (18 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $699 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX 1700's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 1700's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 460 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 289 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 42 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 7.360 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.05888 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 1700 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 | 168 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 1700: 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 | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 400 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 1700. 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 and SDK support
APIs supported by Quadro FX 1700, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 1700. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 1700 is FirePro 2270, which is slower by 35% and lower by 72 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 1700:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro FX 1700 according to our statistics.
