NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Around 26% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 189 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 189 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 610 MHz vs 602 MHz
Around 27% higher texture fill rate: 48.8 GTexel / s vs 38.5 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 240 vs 192
Around 35% better floating-point performance: 622.1 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
2.7x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1536 MB

Core clock speed	610 MHz vs 602 MHz
Texture fill rate	48.8 GTexel / s vs 38.5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	240 vs 192
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1536 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
PassMark - G3D Mark		1222
PassMark - G2D Mark		96
Geekbench - OpenCL		18229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3319

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GT200B	GT200B
Launch date	11 November 2008	11 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,799	$3,499
Place in performance rating	not rated	1202
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Price now		$178.89
Value for money (0-100)		8.02
Technical info
Core clock speed	602 MHz	610 MHz
Floating-point performance	462.3 gflops	622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	192	240
Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s	48.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	189 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 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	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	102.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3