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NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP is a workstation graphics card released on December 1, 2009. It has 16 shading units, 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, a boost clock of 589 MHz and a 28 W board power rating. It scores 145 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.2.

GT218GLWorkstation

6/10 key specs recorded · 27 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 1 feature, 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

16cores

Memory

512 MB

GDDR3

Boost clock

n/a

589 MHz base

Board power

28 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP scores 145 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 21.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,281), measured across 60 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 69.

PassMark G3D Mark

145

Rank #2,281
Faster than 21.6% of 2,658 GPUs
60 samples

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

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 6 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 8.7% 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 380 LP averages DirectX 9 6 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 60 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Max memory 512 MB

Core clock 589 MHz

Memory clock 1600 MHz

DirectX 10.1

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 28 W

First benchmarked 2010-02-02

Samples 60

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 512 MB of memory, a core clock of 589 MHz, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2010-02-02. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename GT218GL

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP uses the GT218GL graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 16

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 8

Render output units (ROPs) 4

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP has 16 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP 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 380 LP. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP.

Clock speeds

Base clock 589 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP runs at a base clock of 589 MHz.

Memory

Size 512 MB

Type GDDR3

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP is equipped with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP has a board power rating of 28 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 28 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 2.0 x16

Market

Launched December 1, 2009

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP was released on December 1, 2009.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 145

PassMark G2D 69

Rank #2,281

Samples 60

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP supports DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 1.2.

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

OpenCL 1.1

CUDA compute capability 1.2

Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP.

Features

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 1.2

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP supports CUDA (Compute capability 1.2) under Compute and AI.