NVIDIA Quadro 2000 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 2000 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 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 NVIDIA Quadro 2000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 77% lower typical power consumption: 62 Watt vs 110 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 31% higher memory clock speed: 2600 MHz vs 1986 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 946 vs 937
  • 3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 301 vs 78
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 December 2010 vs 25 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 62 Watt vs 110 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 2600 MHz vs 1986 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 946 vs 937
PassMark - G2D Mark 301 vs 78

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850

  • Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
  • 4.2x more pipelines: 800 vs 192
  • 2.1x better floating-point performance: 1,000.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3344 vs 2668
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3344 vs 2668
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 25 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
Pipelines 800 vs 192
Floating-point performance 1,000.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3344 vs 2668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3344 vs 2668

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 2000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
946
937
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
301
78
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2668
3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2668
3344
Name NVIDIA Quadro 2000 ATI Radeon HD 4850
PassMark - G3D Mark 946 937
PassMark - G2D Mark 301 78
Geekbench - OpenCL 3884
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.229
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 258.26
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.885
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 13.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.02
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2668 3344
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2668 3344

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 2000 ATI Radeon HD 4850

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF106 RV770
Launch date 24 December 2010 25 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $199
Place in performance rating 1289 1292
Price now $87.99
Type Workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 17.65

Technical info

Core clock speed 625 MHz 625 MHz
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 192 800
Texture fill rate 20 GTexel / s 25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 62 Watt 110 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 178 mm 246 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 41.6 GB / s 63.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2600 MHz 1986 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3