Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 1700 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 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)
Lower TDP (40W vs 42W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
+7%
72
Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
67
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Sep 2008
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro FX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
650 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
20.80GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.160 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.320 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
66.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
42W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G84
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
