NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition sales 5 March 2007 at a recommended price of $2,999 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1536 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 312 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 171 Watt.
We have no data on Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G80 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 5 March 2007 (17 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,999 |
Technical specs
Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 128 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 681 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 171 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 38.40 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 368.6 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition 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 | 312 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition: 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 | 1536 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 76.8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition. 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 |
API support
APIs supported by Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition is FirePro W2100.
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