NVIDIA Quadro M4000 vs ATI Radeon X850 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M4000 and ATI Radeon X850 XT 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 X850 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 49% higher core clock speed: 773 MHz vs 520 MHz
9.7x more texture fill rate: 80.39 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
5.6x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1080 MHz
82.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6680 vs 81
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 673 vs 326

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 June 2015 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	773 MHz vs 520 MHz
Texture fill rate	80.39 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6680 vs 81
PassMark - G2D Mark	673 vs 326

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT

Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 69 Watt vs 120 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	69 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M4000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6680

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

673

326

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M4000	ATI Radeon X850 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	6680	81
PassMark - G2D Mark	673	326
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	680

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M4000	ATI Radeon X850 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	R400
Code name	GM204	R480
Launch date	29 June 2015	1 December 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$791
Place in performance rating	534	532
Price now	$765.93
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	10.68
Technical info
Core clock speed	773 MHz	520 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,573 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	1664
Texture fill rate	80.39 GTexel / s	8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	69 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	160 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	9.0b
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Shader Model	5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Memory bandwidth		34.6 GB / s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management