Quadro 4000 vs Radeon HD 5870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 4000 and Radeon HD 5870, 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 4000 stacks up against Radeon HD 5870, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro 4000 Radeon HD 5870
Power consumption (TDP) 142 Watt 188 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 5870 has 32% more power consumption, than Quadro 4000.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro 4000 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 4000 is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon HD 5870 - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5870 is 375 MHz higher, than Quadro 4000.
  • Quadro 4000 and Radeon HD 5870 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 5870 is 41 mm longer, than Quadro 4000.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5870 is 1992 MHz higher, than Quadro 4000.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 6−7 10−12
ultra / 1080p 4−5 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 1−2
low / 720p 16−18 24−27
medium / 1080p 8−9 14−16
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 55% more, than Quadro 4000.

Full Specs

  Quadro 4000 Radeon HD 5870
Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF100 Cypress
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 2 November 2010 23 September 2009
Pipelines 256 1600
Core clock speed 475 MHz 850 MHz
Transistor count 3,100 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 15.20 68.00
Floating-point performance 486.4 gflops 2,720.0 gflops
Length 241 mm 282 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2808 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 89.86 GB/s 153.6 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 44 Mh/s
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