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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M is a workstation graphics card released on October 1, 2008. It has 32 shading units, 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 625 MHz and a 50 W board power rating. It scores 173 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

G96MWorkstation

6/10 key specs recorded · 24 facts

Depth: 31 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

32cores

Memory

512 MB

GDDR3

Boost clock

n/a

625 MHz base

Board power

50 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M scores 173 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 23.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,233), measured across 54 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 135.

PassMark G3D Mark

173

Rank #2,233
Faster than 23.4% of 2,658 GPUs
54 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 11 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 21.8% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M averages DirectX 9 11 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 54 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 1.0 x16

Max memory 512 MB

Core clock 625 MHz

Memory clock 1600 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 50 W

First benchmarked 2009-04-04

Samples 54

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M states the PCIe 1.0 x16 interface, up to 512 MB of memory, a core clock of 625 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-04-04. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename G96M

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M uses the G96M graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 32

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 16

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M has 32 shading units, 16 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 625 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M runs at a base clock of 625 MHz.

Memory

Size 512 MB

Type GDDR3

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M is equipped with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M has a board power rating of 50 W and it connects over PCIe 1.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 50 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 1.0 x16

Market

Launched October 1, 2008

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M was released on October 1, 2008.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 173

PassMark G2D 135

Rank #2,233

Samples 54

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M.