NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 2x 512 MB

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 2x 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 602 MHz
5.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 38.5 GTexel / s
8.3x more pipelines: 2x 800 vs 192
4.3x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,000.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Around 24% higher memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 602 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 38.5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 800 vs 192
Floating-point performance	2x 1,000.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark		1132
PassMark - G2D Mark		542

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT200B	R700
Launch date	11 November 2008	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,799	$420
Place in performance rating	not rated	251
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	602 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	462.3 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	192	2x 800
Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3