Quadro T1000 vs Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated324
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.01
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameMaltaTU117
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date24 April 2013 (11 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

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 cores2048no data
Core clock speed950 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate128.0no data
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs128no 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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length307 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount3 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHz8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 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, 4x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2013 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 50 Watt

Quadro T1000 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8990 OEM and Quadro T1000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8990 OEM is a desktop card while Quadro T1000 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
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