Quadro FX 5800 vs Radeon E8860

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro FX 5800 and Radeon E8860, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro FX 5800 stacks up against Radeon E8860, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro FX 5800 Radeon E8860
Power consumption (TDP) 189 Watt 37 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video 4x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Quadro FX 5800 has 410% more power consumption, than Radeon E8860.
  • Quadro FX 5800 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon E8860 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro FX 5800 has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon E8860.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro FX 5800 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Radeon E8860 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro FX 5800 is 35 MHz higher, than Radeon E8860.
  • Quadro FX 5800 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon E8860 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon E8860 is 2900 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 5800.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 3−4 7−8
ultra / 1080p 1−2 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 18−20
medium / 1080p 5−6 9−10
The average gaming FPS of Radeon E8860 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 66% more, than Quadro FX 5800.

Full Specs

  Quadro FX 5800 Radeon E8860
Architecture Tesla 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GT200B Venus
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 11 November 2008 25 January 2014
Pipelines 240 640
Core clock speed 610 MHz 575 MHz
Boost Clock 625 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million 1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 48.80 25.00
Floating-point performance 622.1 gflops 800.0 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 512 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 72 GB/s
DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 4.0 5.1
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
CUDA 1.3
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 48 Mh/s
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