NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 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 - 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

2.1x more texture fill rate: 15.2 GTexel / s vs 7.2 billion / sec
5.3x more pipelines: 256 vs 48
2.8x better floating-point performance: 486.4 gflops vs 172.8 gflops
Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 1 GB
3.1x more memory clock speed: 2808 MHz vs 900 MHz

Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s vs 7.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	256 vs 48
Floating-point performance	486.4 gflops vs 172.8 gflops
Maximum memory size	1792 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz vs 900 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

Around 89% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 475 MHz
7.1x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 142 Watt

Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 475 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 142 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
PassMark - G3D Mark		284
PassMark - G2D Mark		53
Geekbench - OpenCL		1465
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.315
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		122.375
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		7.629
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		15.403
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1639
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1639

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GF100	GF119
Launch date	12 June 2011	30 May 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199
Place in performance rating	not rated	1573
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	486.4 gflops	172.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	256	48
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s	7.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	292 million
CUDA cores		48
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1792 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	89.9 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz	900 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers