NVIDIA Quadro M6000 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M6000 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 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).

NVIDIA Quadro M6000

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M6000

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 58% higher core clock speed: 988 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 92% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2x 800
3.4x better floating-point performance: 6,844 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 6612 MHz vs 1990 MHz
10.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11749 vs 1132
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 724 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 March 2015 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	988 MHz vs 625 MHz
Pipelines	3072 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz vs 1990 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11749 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	724 vs 542

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 213.9 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 213.9 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M6000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11749

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

724

542

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M6000	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11749	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	724	542
Geekbench - OpenCL	39571
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	207.14
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2593.621
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.895
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	145.003
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	768.171
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13738
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13738
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M6000	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GM200	R700
Launch date	21 March 2015	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,199.99	$420
Place in performance rating	253	250
Price now	$2,825
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	4.69
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz
Core clock speed	988 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	3072	2x 800
Texture fill rate	213.9 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	8,000 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3