Quadro 400 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking694not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.39no data
Power efficiency1.43no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameRV790GT216
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date2 April 2009 (15 years ago)5 April 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 $169

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 cores80048
Core clock speed850 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors959 million486 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt32 Watt
Texture fill rate34.007.200
Floating-point processing power1.36 TFLOPS0.108 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4016

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 mm163 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed975 MHz770 MHz
Memory bandwidth124.8 GB/s12.32 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 S-Video1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

ATI HD 4890 1507
+918%
Quadro 400 148

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2009 5 April 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 32 Watt

ATI HD 4890 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Quadro 400, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 493.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4890 and Quadro 400. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4890 is a desktop card while Quadro 400 is a workstation one.


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