ATI Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition vs Quadro K600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking900not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19no data
Power efficiency3.33no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameGK107R423
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)28 October 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 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 cores192no data
Core clock speed876 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million160 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Wattno data
Texture fill rate14.028.000
Floating-point processing power0.3364 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1616
TMUs1616

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 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length160 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed891 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.51 GB/s32 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 28 October 2005
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

Quadro K600 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K600 and Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K600 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K600
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