Quadro 4000 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking589not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.36no data
Power efficiency1.38no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameHemlockGF100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 November 2009 (15 years ago)12 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 $1,199

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 cores1600256
Core clock speed725 MHz475 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)294 Watt142 Watt
Texture fill rate58.0015.20
Floating-point processing power2.32 TFLOPS0.4864 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8032

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
Length305 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 6-pin

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 amount1 GB1792 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz702 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s89.86 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 mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2009 12 June 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1792 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 294 Watt 142 Watt

4000 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 1 year, a 75% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 107% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5970 and Quadro 4000 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5970 is a desktop card while Quadro 4000 Mac Edition is a workstation one.


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