ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV630 G71
Architecture TeraScale Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 390 million 278 million
Die size 153 mm² 196 mm²
GPU variant QDFX-1500-N-A2

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 28th, 2007 Apr 20th, 2006
Generation Radeon R600 Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 199 USD 699 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 82 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R500 PCIe
Successor Radeon R700

Clocks

GPU clock 800 MHz 325 MHz
Memory clock 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 625 MHz 1250 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 22.40 GB/s 40.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 120
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 16
Compute units 3
Cache L2 64 KB
Pixel shaders 16
Vertex shaders 6

Performance

Pixel rate 3.200 GPixel/s 5.200 GPixel/s
Texture rate 6.400 GTexel/s 5.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 192.0 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 487.5 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 45 W 65 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Length 173 mm 6.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Board number P455

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.0 (10_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 3.3 2.1
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 4.0 3.0

Other Features

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