Quadro FX 700 vs ATI Radeon HD 5770

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking660not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.80no data
Power efficiency2.95no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameJuniperNV35
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date13 October 2009 (15 years ago)17 March 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 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 cores800no data
Core clock speed850 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million135 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)108 Wattno data
Texture fill rate34.002.200
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs408

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 8x
Length208 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x Molex

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz275 MHz
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/s8.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0a
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2009 17 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

ATI HD 5770 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5770 and Quadro FX 700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5770 is a desktop card while Quadro FX 700 is a workstation one.


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