Quadro FX 570 vs ATI FirePro V3700

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1210
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.02
Power efficiencyno data1.03
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV620G84
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 August 2008 (16 years ago)12 September 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99 $199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores4016
Core clock speed800 MHz460 MHz
Number of transistors181 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt38 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2003.680
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS0.02944 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs48

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 mm198 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed950 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth15.2 GB/s12.8 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 Connectors2x DVI2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 August 2008 12 September 2007
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 38 Watt

ATI V3700 has an age advantage of 10 months, a 45.5% more advanced lithography process, and 18.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V3700 and Quadro FX 570. We've got no test results to judge.


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