Quadro Plex 7000 and Radeon 8500 X4 - video card comparison

Quadro Plex 7000

Radeon 8500 X4

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

GF110

R200

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

July 2011

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCI-X

Core clock speed

574 MHz

250 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 1,175.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

600 Watt

92 Watt

Texture fill rate

36.74

2.000

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3000 MHz

500 MBps

Memory bandwidth

144.0 GB/s

4 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DVI, 2x S-Video

2x DVI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

8.1

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.3

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A