NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 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 5600 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 425 MHz
3.8x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	5 March 2007 vs 19 April 2004
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 171 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 171 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G80	NV41
Launch date	5 March 2007	19 April 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999	$4,999
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	368.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	312 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3