Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (40W vs 171W)
Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition
+412%
369
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Mar 2007
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro FX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
128
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
24
32 KB
L2 Cache
96 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.40 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
368.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
171W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G80
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.0
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
