NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G73 G96C
GPU variant G73-N-B1 G96-875-C1
Architecture Curie Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 177 million 314 million
Die size 125 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 22nd, 2006 Apr 9th, 2009
Generation GeForce 7 PCIe Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 83 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 6 PCIe
Successor GeForce 8
Launch price 199 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 400 MHz 450 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1125 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 5
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 8 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 3.200 GPixel/s 3.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 500.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 4.800 GTexel/s 7.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 72.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 27 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI2x DisplayPort
Power connectors None None
Board number P501, P900 P788
Length 198 mm 7.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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