Quadro FX 330 vs FirePro V7900 SDI

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Cayman	NV37
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 May 2011 (13 years ago)	28 June 2004 (20 years ago)

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 cores	1280	no data
Core clock speed	725 MHz	250 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	224 Watt	21 Watt
Texture fill rate	58.00	1.000
Floating-point processing power	1.856 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	2
TMUs	80	4

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).

Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	279 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	3.2 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 Connectors	4x SDI	1x DVI
StereoOutput3D	+	-
DisplayPort count	4	no data
Dual-link DVI support	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	24 May 2011	28 June 2004
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	224 Watt	21 Watt

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