AMD Radeon R2 Graphics vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R2 Graphics and NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R2 Graphics

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
• 4x more pipelines: 128 vs 32
• 2.5x better floating-point performance: 179.2 gflops vs 72 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
• 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 40 Watt
• Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 250 vs 162
• Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 67 vs 42
• Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1912 vs 1687
• Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1912 vs 1687

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

• Around 29% higher texture fill rate: 7.2 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R2 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	250 162
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	67 42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1912 1687
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1912 1687

Compare specifications (specs)