Quadro FX 1500: specs and benchmarks

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Quadro FX 1500 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.44% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 1500 sales 20 April 2006 at a recommended price of $699 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.63 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 40 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 173 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 65 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 1500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1246
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.46of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG71
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro FX 1500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 1500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed325 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors278 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate7.800of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs24of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 1500 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 1.0 x16
Length173 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 1500: 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 amount256 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed625 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth40 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 1500. 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro FX 1500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 1500. 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.

FX 1500 0.44

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.

FX 1500 169

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro FX 1500 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 FX 1500's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro FX 570 129.55
Quadro FX 1500 100
Quadro 400 86.36

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro FX 1500 is FirePro 2270, which is slower by 16% and lower by 28 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 1500:

FirePro W2100 531.82
FirePro V3900 377.27
Quadro FX 1500 100
FirePro 2270 84.09

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