Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 1792MB VRAM Quadro 4000 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 142W)
Quadro 4000 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1792GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (89.86GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
+575%
486
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jun 2011
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
702 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1792MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
89.86GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
8
32
Shading Units
256
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.600 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.20 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
486.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
243.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
142W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF100
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
