ATI FirePro V4800 vs Quadro K4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking552not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.58no data
Power efficiency6.05no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGK106Redwood
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)26 April 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,269 $189

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 cores768400
Core clock speed810 MHz775 MHz
Number of transistors2,540 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt69 Watt
Texture fill rate51.8415.50
Floating-point processing power1.244 TFLOPS0.62 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs6420

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1404 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.8 GB/s57.6 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 26 April 2010
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 69 Watt

Quadro K4000 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI V4800, on the other hand, has 15.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K4000 and FirePro V4800. We've got no test results to judge.


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