Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics vs Quadro FX 5600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1010not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.55no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG80Beema
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date5 March 2007 (17 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores128128
Core clock speed600 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speedno data300 MHz
Number of transistors681 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)171 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate38.403.976
Floating-point processing power0.3456 TFLOPS0.1272 TFLOPS
ROPs244
TMUs328

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 1.0 x16IGP
Length254 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/sno data

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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2007 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 90 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 171 Watt 100 Watt

R2 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 7 years, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 71% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5600 and Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 5600 is a workstation card while Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
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AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics
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