It features 16 pixel shaders and 6 vertex shaders, 16 texture mapping units, and 16 ROPs.
The G71 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 196 mm² and 278 million transistors. Since Quadro FX 1500 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. Built on the 90 nm process, and based on the G71 graphics processor, in its QDFX-1500-N-A2 variant, the card supports DirectX 9.0c. The Quadro FX 1500 was an enthusiast-class professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on April 20th, 2006.