Radeon RX Vega 11 Efficient 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 efficiency1.21no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameG94Raven
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)23 April 2018 (6 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 cores64704
Core clock speed550 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1250 MHz
Number of transistors505 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)59 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate17.6055.00
Floating-point processing power0.176 TFLOPS1.76 TFLOPS
ROPs128
TMUs3244

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 x16IGP
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount768 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/sno data

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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2009 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 59 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 11 Efficient has an age advantage of 9 years, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 68.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1800 and Radeon RX Vega 11 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1800 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX Vega 11 Efficient is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
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