NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 videocard review

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Quadro FX 5600 videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 5 March 2007. At the time of release, the videocard cost $2,999. The videocard is designed for workstation-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G80.

Core clock speed - 600 MHz. Texture fill rate - 19.2 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 128. Floating-point performance - 345.6 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 90 nm. Transistors count - 681 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 171 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1536 MB. Memory bus width - 384 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1600 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 76.8 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
525
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
109
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
3328 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
3328.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 525
PassMark - G2D Mark 109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3328 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3328.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G80
Launch date 5 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $2,999
Place in performance rating 1251
Price now $179.99
Type Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 4.92

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm
Pipelines 128
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 171 Watt
Transistor count 681 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3