NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI

  • Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 154 Watt vs 171 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 154 Watt vs 171 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 128 vs 96
  • Around 50% better floating-point performance: 345.6 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 768 MB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 128 vs 96
Floating-point performance 345.6 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 768 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
PassMark - G3D Mark 525
PassMark - G2D Mark 109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3328

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla
Code name G80 G80
Launch date 5 March 2007 5 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $5,999 $2,999
Place in performance rating not rated 1251
Type Workstation Workstation
Price now $179.99
Value for money (0-100) 4.92

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 230.4 gflops 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 96 128
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 154 Watt 171 Watt
Transistor count 681 million 681 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 229 mm 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 768 MB 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 67.2 GB / s 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3