ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI
What is the difference between ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| R580+ | GPU Name | G70 |
| R500 | Architecture | Curie |
| TSMC | Foundry | TSMC |
| 90 nm | Process Size | 110 nm |
| 384 million | Transistors | 302 million |
| 352 mm² | Die Size | 333 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Sep 10th, 2006 | Release Date | Jan 30th, 2006 |
| Radeon R500 PCIe (X1950) | Family | Quadro FX (x500) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| PCIe 1.0 x16 | Bus Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Memory
| 512 MB | Memory Size | 512 MB |
| GDDR4 | Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| 256 bit | Memory Bus | 256 bit |
| 64.00 GB/s | Bandwidth | 33.60 GB/s |
Performance
| 10.40 GPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 6.880 GPixel/s |
| 1.300 GVertices/s | Vertex fillrate | 860.0 MVertices/s |
| 10.40 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 10.32 GTexel/s |
Clock Speeds
| 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective | Memory Clock | 525 MHz 1050 Mbps effective |
| 650 MHz | GPU Clock | 430 MHz |
Render Config
| 16 | TMUs | 24 |
| 16 | ROPs | 16 |
| 48 | Pixel Shaders | 24 |
| 8 | Vertex Shaders | 8 |
Board Design
| Dual-slot | Slot Width | Triple-slot |
| unknown | Thermal design power (TDP) | 116 W |
| 200 W | Suggested PSU | 300 W |
| 1x DVI 1x VHDCI | Display Connectors | 2x DVI 1x S-Video |
| 1x 6-pin | Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin |
| A988 | Board Number | P348 |
API support
| 9.0c (9_3) | DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) |
| 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial) | OpenGL | 2.1 |
| N/A | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| 3.0 | Shader Model | 3.0 |