GeForce 7050 + nForce 630a vs Quadro FX 5800

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking750not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.15no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGT200BC68
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,499 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 cores240no data
Core clock speed610 MHz425 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million112 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)189 Wattno data
Texture fill rate48.800.85
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPSno data
ROPs321
TMUs802

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 2.0 x16PCI
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width512 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth102.4 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 DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2008 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm

FX 5800 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5800 and GeForce 7050 + nForce 630a. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 5800 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 7050 + nForce 630a is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
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NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630a
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