Quadro FX 580 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison

Quadro FX 580

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G96C

Caicos

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2009

July 2013

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

450 MHz

875 MHz

Floating-point performance

72 gflops

280.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

314 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

7.200

7.000

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A