NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition videocard review

Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition 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 - 368.6 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.

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G80
Launch date	5 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999
Place in performance rating	not rated
Type	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	368.6 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
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	312 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