Quadro4 580 XGL vs Quadro 5000 SDI

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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
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameGF100NV18 A4
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date23 February 2011 (13 years ago)12 November 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,899 no data

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 cores352no data
Core clock speed513 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)172 Wattno data
Texture fill rate22.571.200
Floating-point processing power0.7223 TFLOPSno data
ROPs404
TMUs444

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 x16AGP 8x
Length248 mmno data
WidthQuad-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount2.5 GB64 MB
Memory bus width320 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth120.0 GB/s6.4 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 DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI1x DMS-59

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)8.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 February 2011 12 November 2002
Maximum RAM amount 2.5 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

5000 SDI has an age advantage of 8 years, a 3900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

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