NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 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: 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

Around 72% lower typical power consumption: 142 Watt vs 244 Watt
Around 17% higher maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 1536 MB

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt vs 244 Watt
Maximum memory size	1792 MB vs 1536 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Around 63% higher core clock speed: 772 MHz vs 475 MHz
3.3x more texture fill rate: 49.41 GTexel / s vs 15.2 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 512 vs 256
3.3x better floating-point performance: 1,581 gflops vs 486.4 gflops
Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 2808 MHz

Core clock speed	772 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	49.41 GTexel / s vs 15.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 256
Floating-point performance	1,581 gflops vs 486.4 gflops
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz vs 2808 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		42.212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		914.386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		43.391
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		99.735

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GF100	GF110
Launch date	12 June 2011	6 June 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199	$499
Place in performance rating	not rated	1155
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	772 MHz
Floating-point performance	486.4 gflops	1,581 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	256	512
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s	49.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt	244 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1792 MB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	89.9 GB / s	192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz	4008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5