ATI Xbox 360 GPU vs Quadro FX 5800

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking748not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.17no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGT200BXenos
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)22 November 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores240240
Core clock speed610 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million232 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)189 Wattno data
Texture fill rate48.808.000
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPS0.24 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8016

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB512 MB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s22.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3N/A
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2008 22 November 2005
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm

FX 5800 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5800 and Xbox 360 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 5800 is a workstation graphics card while Xbox 360 GPU is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
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