Quadro FX 4800 vs Radeon R9 M360

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro FX 4800 and Radeon R9 M360, 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 4800 stacks up against Radeon R9 M360, check out specs charts below.
Quadro FX 4800
Radeon R9 M360

Main Specs

  Quadro FX 4800 Radeon R9 M360
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 4 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video No outputs
 
  • Quadro FX 4800 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 M360 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro FX 4800 has 1532 GB more memory, than Radeon R9 M360.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Radeon R9 M360 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon R9 M360 is 298 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 4800.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 M360 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 4800 is 475 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 M360.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 8−9
ultra / 1080p 0−1 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 12−14 18−20
medium / 1080p 3−4 9−10
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 M360 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 100% more, than Quadro FX 4800.

Full Specs

  Quadro FX 4800 Radeon R9 M360
Architecture Tesla 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GT200B Tropo
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 11 November 2008 5 May 2015
Pipelines 192 512
Core clock speed 602 MHz 900 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million 1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 38.53 29.60
Floating-point performance 462.3 gflops 947.2 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB/s 72 GB/s
DirectX 11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model 4.0 5.1
OpenGL 3.3 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 Not Listed
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 1.3
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Eyefinity +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
DualGraphics +
ZeroCore +
Switchable graphics +
Mantle +
Compute units 8