GeForce FX 5100 vs Quadro FX 1800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1095	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	1.21	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	G94	NV34 A1
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	30 March 2009 (15 years ago)	6 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$489	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	64	no data
Core clock speed	550 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	505 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	59 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	17.60	0.8
Floating-point processing power	0.176 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	12	4
TMUs	32	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	198 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	768 MB	64 MB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB/s	2.656 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 Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	9.0a
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	30 March 2009	6 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	768 MB	64 MB
Chip lithography	65 nm	150 nm

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