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).

 

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 283
PassMark - G2D Mark 53
Geekbench - OpenCL 1490
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 1572
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