Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition sales 27 September 2008 at a recommended price of $699 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.65 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 20.8 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 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 42 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G84 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 27 September 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $699 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 520 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 289 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 42 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 8.320 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.06656 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition 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).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 168 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition: 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 type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 650 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 20.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition. 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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
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