Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking143not rated
Place by popularity92not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation54.92no data
Power efficiency16.12no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameNavi 10G84
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years ago)27 September 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 $699

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 cores230432
Core clock speed1130 MHz520 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHzno data
Number of transistors10,300 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt42 Watt
Texture fill rate224.68.320
Floating-point processing power7.188 TFLOPS0.06656 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs14416

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 4.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length267 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount6 GB512 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz650 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s20.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.54.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 January 2020 27 September 2008
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 7 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 42 Watt

RX 5600 XT has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1042.9% more advanced lithography process.

FX 1700 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 257.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5600 XT and Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5600 XT is a desktop card while Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition is a workstation one.


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