AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Apr 2004
Southern Islands
Generation
Quadro FX Rankine
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
-
64
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.52 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
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-
-
1.761 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
110.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
130W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
4x SDI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
NV41
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
NV41 GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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5.1
Shader Model
3.0
