Quadro NVS 420 vs ATI FirePro V5800

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking709not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.36no data
Power efficiency3.58no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameJuniperG98
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date26 April 2010 (14 years ago)20 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 $131.43

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 cores8008
Core clock speed690 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)74 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate27.604.400
Floating-point processing power1.104 TFLOPS0.0224 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs408

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 1.0 x16
Length229 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s11.2 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

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 V5800 1415
+1287%
NVS 420 102

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 April 2010 20 January 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 74 Watt 40 Watt

ATI V5800 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

NVS 420, on the other hand, has 85% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V5800 and Quadro NVS 420. We've got no test results to judge.


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