AMD Radeon R5 230 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 7.9x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 150 Watt
• 2.7x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1536 MB
• 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 62

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

• 7.7x more texture fill rate: 38.5 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 192 vs 160
• 2.3x better floating-point performance: 462.3 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
• 4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 994 vs 222
• 3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15302 vs 4127
• Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 2480
• Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 2480

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	222 994
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	255 62
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	4127 15302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2480 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2480 3358

Compare specifications (specs)