Quadro CX: specs and benchmarks

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Quadro CX provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.46% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro CX sales 11 November 2008 at a recommended price of $1,999 . This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1536 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro CX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking836
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04
Power efficiency1.12of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT200B
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,999 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro CX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro CX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed602 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate38.53of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.4623 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs24of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs64of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro CX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro CX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro CX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro CX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro CX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro CX 2.46

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Quadro CX 947

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro CX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Quadro CX's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro 2000D 102.85
Quadro 100
Quadro CX 100
GRID K220Q 96.34

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro CX is FirePro V4900, which is faster by 4% and higher by 13 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro CX:

FirePro V5900 133.33
FirePro V4900 104.47
Quadro CX 100

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