NVIDIA Quadro 7000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 7000 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 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, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro 7000

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 7000

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 651 MHz vs 580 MHz
4.5x more texture fill rate: 41.66 GTexel / s vs 9.28 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 512 vs 320
3.6x better floating-point performance: 1,332 gflops vs 371.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 3404 MHz vs 1500 MHz
9.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3505 vs 366
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 397 vs 248

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 May 2012 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed	651 MHz vs 580 MHz
Texture fill rate	41.66 GTexel / s vs 9.28 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,332 gflops vs 371.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3404 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3505 vs 366
PassMark - G2D Mark	397 vs 248

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

5.8x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 204 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 204 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 7000
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3505

366

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

397

248

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 7000	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
PassMark - G3D Mark	3505	366
PassMark - G2D Mark	397	248
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	32.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1142.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	51.693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	110.277
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 7000	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GF110	M88
Launch date	2 May 2012	4 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$14,499
Place in performance rating	692	694
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	651 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,332 gflops	371.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	512	320
Texture fill rate	41.66 GTexel / s	9.28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	204 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	177.4 GB / s	48.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3404 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0