NVIDIA Quadro 4000 vs ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 and ATI Radeon X850 PRO 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro 4000

ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.5x more texture fill rate: 15.2 GTexel / s vs 6.08 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 2808 MHz vs 1040 MHz
20.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1478 vs 73
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 379 vs 157

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 November 2010 vs 1 December 2004
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s vs 6.08 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz vs 1040 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1478 vs 73
PassMark - G2D Mark	379 vs 157

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 507 MHz vs 475 MHz

Core clock speed	507 MHz vs 475 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

379

157

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1478	73
PassMark - G2D Mark	379	157
Geekbench - OpenCL	4974
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	13.345
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	306.122
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.552
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	20.453
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	39.651
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3472
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3472
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	R400
Code name	GF100	R480
Launch date	2 November 2010	1 December 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199	$279
Place in performance rating	1059	1062
Price now	$141.66
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	17.08
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	507 MHz
Floating-point performance	486.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	256
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s	6.08 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	89.9 GB / s	33.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz	1040 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3