NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K4000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 3x more pipelines: 768 vs 2x 128
  • Around 62% better floating-point performance: 1,244 gflops vs 2x 384.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 197 Watt
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • 5.6x more memory clock speed: 5616 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2722 vs 613
  • Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 421 vs 262
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3321 vs 3238
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3321 vs 3238
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2013 vs 18 March 2008
Pipelines 768 vs 2x 128
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops vs 2x 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 197 Watt
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2722 vs 613
PassMark - G2D Mark 421 vs 262
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3321 vs 3238
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3321 vs 3238

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

  • Around 85% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 810 MHz
  • Around 48% higher texture fill rate: 76.8 billion / sec vs 51.84 GTexel / s
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 810 MHz
Texture fill rate 76.8 billion / sec vs 51.84 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2722
613
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
421
262
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3321
3238
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3321
3238
Name NVIDIA Quadro K4000 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
PassMark - G3D Mark 2722 613
PassMark - G2D Mark 421 262
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 3238
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3321 3238
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 817

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro K4000 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK106 G92
Launch date 1 March 2013 18 March 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $1,269 $599
Place in performance rating 878 881
Price now $225.65
Type Workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 14.81

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 1500 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops 2x 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 768 2x 128
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s 76.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 197 Watt
Transistor count 2,540 million 754 million
CUDA cores 256 (128 per GPU)
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, HDMIDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options Quad

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 134.8 GB / s 128 (64 per GPU)
Memory bus width 192 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI