ATI FireGL Z1-128 vs Quadro RTX 4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking107not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.21no data
Power efficiency17.20no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameTU104R300
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 November 2018 (6 years ago)1 October 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 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 cores2304no data
Core clock speed1005 MHz325 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,600 million110 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Wattno data
Texture fill rate222.51.300
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPSno data
ROPs644
TMUs1444
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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 3.0 x16AGP 8x
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1625 MHz310 MHz
Memory bandwidth416.0 GB/s19.84 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 Connectors3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 November 2018 1 October 2002
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 12 nm 150 nm

RTX 4000 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

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