ATI Radeon 9800 vs Quadro FX 4800

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	828	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.04	no data
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name	GT200B	R350
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	11 November 2008 (15 years ago)	1 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,799	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	no data
Core clock speed	602 MHz	325 MHz
Number of transistors	1,400 million	117 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	37 Watt
Texture fill rate	38.53	2.600
Floating-point performance	0.4623 gflops	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x Molex

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 type	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	128 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	580 MHz
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	18.56 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 Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.3	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	11 November 2008	1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	128 MB
Chip lithography	55 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	37 Watt

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