Quadro FX Go1400 vs FirePro W600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	668	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.41	no data
Power efficiency	4.01	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	NV41
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	13 June 2012 (12 years ago)	25 February 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	512	no data
Core clock speed	750 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	222 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	24.00	2.200
Floating-point processing power	0.768 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	32	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-III
Length	163 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	295 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	18.88 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

6x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	5.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	13 June 2012	25 February 2005
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	130 nm

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