NVIDIA Quadro 5000 vs ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5000 and ATI Radeon 9800 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 5000

ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 35% higher core clock speed: 513 MHz vs 380 MHz
7.4x more texture fill rate: 22.57 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
20x more maximum memory size: 2560 MB vs 128 MB
4.4x more memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 680 MHz
29.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1934 vs 66
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 388 vs 175

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 February 2011 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	513 MHz vs 380 MHz
Texture fill rate	22.57 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2560 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz vs 680 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1934 vs 66
PassMark - G2D Mark	388 vs 175

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

3.2x lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 152 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt vs 152 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1934

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

388

175

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 5000	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1934	66
PassMark - G2D Mark	388	175
Geekbench - OpenCL	7358
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	16.451
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	511.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.925
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	17.065
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	46.591
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3104
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3104
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3316

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 5000	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 9
Code name	GF100	R360
Launch date	23 February 2011	1 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	$399
Place in performance rating	981	984
Price now	$268
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	12.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	513 MHz	380 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	352
Texture fill rate	22.57 GTexel / s	3.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	152 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	117 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	AGP 8x
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2560 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	120.0 GB / s	21.76 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz	680 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR