R600 vs Quadro

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Celsius (1999−2005)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	NV10	R600
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	1999 (25 years ago)	no data
Current price	$161	$9.99

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	no data	320
Core clock speed	135 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	17 million	720 million
Manufacturing process technology	220 nm	80 nm
Texture fill rate	0.54	no data

Size and 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	AGP 4x	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory

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	SDR	no data
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	166 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	2.656 GB/s	no data

Video outputs and ports

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 VGA

no data

API support

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

DirectX	7.0	10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model	no data	4.0
OpenGL	1.2	3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Advantages and disadvantages

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Chip lithography

220 nm

80 nm

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