ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4890

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 190W)

Score

Radeon HD 4890

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Apr 2006

Radeon R700

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

975 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

124.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

13.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

34.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

1360 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

272.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

NV43

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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