Quadro2 Go vs FirePro W600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking675not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.46no data
Power efficiency3.97no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameCape VerdeNV11 B3
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date13 June 2012 (12 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

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 cores512no data
Core clock speed750 MHz143 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million20 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate24.000.29
Floating-point processing power0.768 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs322

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 3.0 x16AGP 4x
Length163 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz181 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s2.896 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 June 2012 14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 180 nm

FirePro W600 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W600 and Quadro2 Go. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W600 is a workstation card while Quadro2 Go is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro W600
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