Radeon RX 5770 vs Quadro FX 5800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking746not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.16no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameGT200BNavi 10
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,499 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 cores240no data
Core clock speed610 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)189 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate48.80no data
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs80no 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width512 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 189 Watt 225 Watt

FX 5800 has 19% lower power consumption.

RX 5770, on the other hand, has a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5800 and Radeon RX 5770. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 5800 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 5770 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
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