Quadro4 580 XGL vs Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1097not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.79no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeNV18 A4
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)12 November 2002 (22 years 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 cores128no data
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors3100 Million29 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.200
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 GB/s
Shared memory+no 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 Connectorsno data1x DMS-59

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)8.0
OpenGLno data1.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 12 November 2002
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

R2 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) and Quadro4 580 XGL. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while Quadro4 580 XGL is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)
Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)
NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL
Quadro4 580 XGL

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