ATI FireGL V8600 vs Quadro M4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking314not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.46no data
Power efficiency9.96no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGM204R600
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date29 June 2015 (9 years ago)14 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$791 $1,899

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 cores1664320
Core clock speed773 MHz688 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million720 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt159 Watt
Texture fill rate80.3911.01
Floating-point processing power2.573 TFLOPS0.4403 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs10416

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 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length241 mm254 mm
Width1" (2.5 cm)2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz868 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 192 GB/s111.1 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Syncno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
High-Performance Video I/O6+no data
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1210.0 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2015 14 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 159 Watt

Quadro M4000 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 32.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M4000 and FireGL V8600. We've got no test results to judge.


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