Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro Plex 7000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 6GB VRAM Quadro Plex 7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 600W)
Quadro Plex 7000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Quadro Plex 7000
+1533%
1176
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jul 2011
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro Plex
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
48
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.37 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.74 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1176 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
587.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
600W
200 W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
4x DVI
2x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF110
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
