NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

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 Mac Edition

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 60% better floating-point performance: 368.6 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	368.6 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 768 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition
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	not rated
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops	368.6 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
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm	312 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