ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro 400

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580 GT216
GPU variant R580 XL (215BAEBKA31FG) GT216 GL
Architecture R500 Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 486 million
Die size 352 mm² 100 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 6th, 2006 Apr 5th, 2011
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe Quadro
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 349 USD 169 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600

Clocks

GPU clock 575 MHz 450 MHz
Memory clock 600 MHz 1200 Mbps effective 770 MHz 1540 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1125 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 38.40 GB/s 12.32 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 12 8
Shading units 48
SM count 6
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 3.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 7.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 108.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 75 W 32 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Length 163 mm 6.4 inches
Width 69 mm 2.7 inches
Board number P1052

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial) 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.1
CUDA 1.2

Other Features

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