Quadro FX 580 vs ATI FirePro V5700

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV730G96C
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 August 2008 (16 years ago)9 April 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 $199

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 cores32032
Core clock speed700 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors514 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)56 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate22.407.200
Floating-point processing power0.448 TFLOPS0.072 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs3216

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 2.0 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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s25.6 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

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
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 August 2008 9 April 2009
Power consumption (TDP) 56 Watt 40 Watt

FX 580 has an age advantage of 8 months, and 40% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V5700 and Quadro FX 580. We've got no test results to judge.


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