ATI Radeon HD 4580 vs AMD FirePro V4900

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4580 and AMD FirePro V4900 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).

ATI Radeon HD 4580

AMD FirePro V4900

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4580

Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V4900

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 796 MHz
3x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 6.37 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 480 vs 120
4x better floating-point performance: 768.0 gflops vs 191.04 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1386 MHz

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 796 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 6.37 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 120
Floating-point performance	768.0 gflops vs 191.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1386 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4580
GPU 2: AMD FirePro V4900

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4580	AMD FirePro V4900
PassMark - G3D Mark		990
PassMark - G2D Mark		312
Geekbench - OpenCL		1928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		6.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		392.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		17.874
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		72.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7745
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7745

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4580	AMD FirePro V4900
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale 2
Code name	RV635	Turks
Launch date	20 November 2011	1 November 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	980
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	796 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	191.04 gflops	768.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	120	480
Texture fill rate	6.37 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	378 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	190 mm	163 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	22.18 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1386 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5