NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K4000 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

427 points
828% significantly better overall score
46 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

11 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

68 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6816 points
7019 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6504 points
7602 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6816 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4741 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6876 points
6895 points
0.28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB
49% significantly more memory
2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

134.8 GB/s
110% significantly higher memory bandwidth
64 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

12.96 Gigapixels/s
79% significantly higher pixel rate
7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.84 Gigatexels/s
139% significantly higher texture rate
21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
100% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
166% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

24
200% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

349th of 586
543rd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.4

Quadro K4000 vs Radeon HD 8790M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K4000 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8790M in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K4000 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K4000 over the Radeon HD 8790M.

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