Riva 128ZX vs Quadro Plex 7000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)no data
GPU code nameGF110NV3
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)23 February 1998 (26 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$14,999 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 cores512no data
Core clock speed574 MHz100 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million4 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)600 Wattno data
Texture fill rate36.740.1
Floating-point processing power1.176 TFLOPSno data
ROPs481
TMUs641

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 x16AGP 2x
Length522 mmno data
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount6 GB8 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz100 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s1.6 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 Connectors4x DVI, 2x S-Video1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)5.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 23 February 1998
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 350 nm

Plex 7000 has an age advantage of 13 years, a 76700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro Plex 7000 and Riva 128ZX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro Plex 7000 is a workstation graphics card while Riva 128ZX is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
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