Quadro Plex 2100 D4 vs ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameR580G92
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date6 November 2006 (18 years ago)25 July 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 no data

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 coresno data128 ×4
Core clock speed575 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors384 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt640 Watt
Texture fill rate6.90032.00 ×4
Floating-point processing powerno data0.32 TFLOPS ×4
ROPs1216 ×4
TMUs1264 ×4

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 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data522 mm
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB ×4
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit ×4
Memory clock speed600 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/s51.2 GB/s ×4

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-VideoNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 November 2006 25 July 2008
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 640 Watt

ATI X1900 G5 Mac Edition has 753.3% lower power consumption.

Plex 2100 D4, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition and Quadro Plex 2100 D4. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition is a desktop graphics card while Quadro Plex 2100 D4 is a workstation one.

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