NVIDIA Quadro 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 15.2 GTexel / s vs 6.4 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
  • 2.6x more memory clock speed: 2808 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 10.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1478 vs 139
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 380 vs 153
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 November 2010 vs 26 July 2004
Core clock speed 475 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.2 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 2808 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1478 vs 139
PassMark - G2D Mark 380 vs 153

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

  • Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 81 Watt vs 142 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 81 Watt vs 142 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1478
139
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
380
153
Name NVIDIA Quadro 4000 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 1478 139
PassMark - G2D Mark 380 153
Geekbench - OpenCL 5023
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 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Curie
Code name GF100 NV40 A1
Launch date 2 November 2010 26 July 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $1,199 $499
Place in performance rating 1068 1070
Price now $141.66
Type Workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 17.08

Technical info

Core clock speed 475 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 486.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 256
Texture fill rate 15.2 GTexel / s 6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 142 Watt 81 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm 197 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 89.9 GB / s 35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2808 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3