ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs NVIDIA Quadro

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4890 and NVIDIA Quadro 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4890

NVIDIA Quadro

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4890

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 3 month(s) later
6.3x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 135 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 220 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
23.5x more memory clock speed: 3900 MHz vs 166 MHz

Launch date	2 April 2009 vs 1 January 1999
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 135 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 220 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	3900 MHz vs 166 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro

15.9x more texture fill rate: 540 MTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	540 MTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4890
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4890	NVIDIA Quadro
PassMark - G3D Mark	1539
PassMark - G2D Mark	66
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3348
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3348

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4890	NVIDIA Quadro
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Celsius
Code name	RV790	NV10 A3
Launch date	2 April 2009	1 January 1999
Launch price (MSRP)	$249
Place in performance rating	1258	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	135 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	220 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	34.0 GTexel / s	540 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	190 Watt
Transistor count	959 million	17 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	124.8 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3900 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	SDR