NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 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, 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.

NVIDIA Quadro K4000

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 660 MHz
Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
Around 47% better floating-point performance: 1,244 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 110 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 5616 MHz vs 1700 MHz
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2722 vs 478
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 421 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2013 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 660 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 640
Floating-point performance	1,244 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 110 Watt
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5616 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2722 vs 478
PassMark - G2D Mark	421 vs 187

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

4.1x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 51.84 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 51.84 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K4000
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2722

478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

421

187

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K4000	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	2722	478
PassMark - G2D Mark	421	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	6670
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	427.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	23.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	61.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3321
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	817

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K4000	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK106	M88
Launch date	1 March 2013	1 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,269
Place in performance rating	878	880
Price now	$225.65
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	14.81
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	660 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,244 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	768	640
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	2,540 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	134.8 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5616 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0