Quadro T1200 Mobile vs Quadro FX 580

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated285
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data75.03
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG96CTU117
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date9 April 2009 (15 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores321024
Core clock speed450 MHz855 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1425 MHz
Number of transistors314 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate7.20091.20
Floating-point processing power0.072 TFLOPS2.918 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1664

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length198 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s160.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA1.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 April 2009 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 18 Watt

T1200 Mobile has an age advantage of 12 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 358.3% more advanced lithography process, and 122.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 580 and Quadro T1200 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 580 is a workstation card while Quadro T1200 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
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