Radeon R9 285 vs Quadro M4000

Place in performance ranking	291	292
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	10.41	16.15
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)	GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name	GM204	Tonga
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	29 June 2015 (8 years old)	2 September 2014 (9 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$791	$249
Current price	$314 (0.4x MSRP)	$85 (0.3x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

R9 285 has 55% better value for money than Quadro M4000.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1664	1792
Core clock speed	773 MHz	918 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	190 Watt
Texture fill rate	80.39	102.8
Floating-point performance	2,573 gflops	3,290 gflops

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm	221 mm
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
SLI options	+	no data

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	Up to 192 GB/s	176.0 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo	2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync	no data
HDMI	no data	+

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 support

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

DirectX	12	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5	6.5
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	+	1.2.170
CUDA	5.2	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro M4000 17.27
+0.1%

R9 285 17.25

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro M4000 6689
+0.1%

R9 285 6680