Quadro 4000 Mac Edition vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking22not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation29.85no data
Power efficiency16.03no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameNavi 21GF100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)12 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 $1,199

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 cores5120256
Core clock speed1825 MHz475 MHz
Boost clock speed2250 MHzno data
Number of transistors26,800 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt142 Watt
Texture fill rate720.015.20
Floating-point processing power23.04 TFLOPS0.4864 TFLOPS
ROPs12832
TMUs32032
Ray Tracing Cores80no 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 4.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm241 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB1792 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz702 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s89.86 GB/s
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 Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.55.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.11.1
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 12 June 2011
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 1792 MB
Chip lithography 7 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 142 Watt

RX 6900 XT has an age advantage of 9 years, a 814.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

4000 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 111.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6900 XT and Quadro 4000 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6900 XT is a desktop card while Quadro 4000 Mac Edition is a workstation one.


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