NVIDIA Quadro 7000 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 7000 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro 7000

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 7000

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 651 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
96x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 64 MB
10.3x more memory clock speed: 3404 MHz vs 332 MHz
438.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3505 vs 8
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 397 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 May 2012 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	651 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3404 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3505 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	397 vs 247

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

19.2x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 41.66 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 41.66 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 7000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3505

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

397

247

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 7000	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark	3505	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	397	247
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	32.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1142.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	51.693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	110.277
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 7000	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GF110	NV34 A1
Launch date	2 May 2012	6 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$14,499
Place in performance rating	712	710
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	651 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,332 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	41.66 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	204 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	177.4 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3404 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR