NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 705 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 338 billion / sec vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
3.6x more pipelines: 2x 2880 vs 2x 800
5x better floating-point performance: 2x 5,046 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
7.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8987 vs 1132
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 May 2014 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	705 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	338 billion / sec vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	2x 2880 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	2x 5,046 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8987 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	656 vs 542

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 375 Watt
284.3x more memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 375 Watt
Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8987

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

656

542

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8987	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	656	542
Geekbench - OpenCL	22732
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.419
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1261.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.89
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	17.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	309.857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8124
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2413
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2226
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8124
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2413
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2226
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	17055

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK110B	R700
Launch date	28 May 2014	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999	$420
Place in performance rating	395	244
Price now	$1,580
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	6.46
Technical info
Boost clock speed	876 MHz
Core clock speed	705 MHz	625 MHz
CUDA cores	5760
Floating-point performance	2x 5,046 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2x 2880	2x 800
Texture fill rate	338 billion / sec	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	375 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	Two 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	672 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	768-bit (384-bit per GPU)	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA