Radeon 890M vs Quadro Plex 1000 Model II

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated253
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameG70Strix Point
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2008 (16 years ago)15 July 2024 (less than a year ago)

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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed470 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors302 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)640 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate11.28185.6
Floating-point processing powerno data5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs2464
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length522 mmno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed525 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth33.6 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.8
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2008 15 July 2024
Chip lithography 110 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 640 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has an age advantage of 15 years, a 2650% more advanced lithography process, and 4166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro Plex 1000 Model II and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro Plex 1000 Model II is a workstation card while Radeon 890M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model II
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AMD Radeon 890M
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