Quadro T1200 Mobile vs Quadro FX 560

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated284
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data74.87
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG73TU117
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed350 MHz855 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1425 MHz
Number of transistors177 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate4.20091.20
Floating-point processing powerno data2.918 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1264

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/s160.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.6
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2006 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 18 Watt

T1200 Mobile has an age advantage of 14 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 650% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 560 and Quadro T1200 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 560 is a workstation card while Quadro T1200 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
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