Radeon RX 5700M vs Quadro FX 1800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1098not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency1.22no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameG94Navi 10
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)1 March 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$489 no data

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 cores642304
Core clock speed550 MHz1465 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1720 MHz
Number of transistors505 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)59 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rate17.60247.7
Floating-point processing power0.176 TFLOPS7.926 TFLOPS
ROPs1264
TMUs32144

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount768 MB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/s384.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2009 1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount 768 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 59 Watt 180 Watt

FX 1800 has 205.1% lower power consumption.

RX 5700M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 966.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1800 and Radeon RX 5700M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1800 is a workstation card while Radeon RX 5700M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
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