NVIDIA Quadro M4000 vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M4000 and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition 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.

NVIDIA Quadro M4000

ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 773 MHz vs 625 MHz
8x more texture fill rate: 80.39 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
4.1x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1450 MHz
48.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6691 vs 137
Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 684 vs 507

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 June 2015 vs 24 January 2006
Core clock speed	773 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	80.39 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6691 vs 137
PassMark - G2D Mark	684 vs 507

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 120 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M4000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6691

137

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

684

507

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M4000	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	6691	137
PassMark - G2D Mark	684	507
Geekbench - OpenCL	18372
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	65.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	732.046
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.453
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	17.725
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	217.357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6291
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3332
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6291
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3332
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2302

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M4000	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	R500
Code name	GM204	R580
Launch date	29 June 2015	24 January 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$791
Place in performance rating	517	293
Price now	$765.93
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	10.68
Technical info
Core clock speed	773 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,573 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1664
Texture fill rate	80.39 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort, DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	241 mm
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
Width	1" (2.5 cm)
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Shader Model	5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	1450 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Memory bandwidth		46.4 GB / s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management