NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 3500 sales 22 May 2006 at a recommended price of $1,599 . 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 1.32 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 42.24 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 80 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.67% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 3500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking1137
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG71
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date22 May 2006 (17 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599
Current price$920 (0.6x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Quadro FX 3500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 3500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed450 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors278 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate9.000of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 3500 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length173 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 3500: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed1320 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth42.24 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 3500. 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by Quadro FX 3500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 3500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FX 3500 0.67

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro FX 3500 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Quadro FX 3500 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


AMD equivalent

It seems that there's no AMD equivalent for Quadro FX 3500. The nearest candidate is FirePro V3900, however, it's 149% faster and higher by 245 positions in our rating.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 3500:

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Recommended processors

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