NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7990
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7990

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 and AMD Radeon HD 7990. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

725
Place in performance rating
238
8.95
Value for money (0-100)
6.43
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GT200B
Code name
Malta
Workstation
Type
Desktop
30 March 2009 (12 years ago)
Release date
24 April 2013 (8 years ago)
$799
Launch price (MSRP)
$999
$235 (0.3x MSRP)
Price now
$1099 (1.1x MSRP)
0.25
Value for money
2.55
GT200B
GPU code name
Malta
Workstation
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 and AMD Radeon HD 7990 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

192
Pipelines
2048
600 MHz
Core clock speed
950 MHz
no data
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1,400 million
Transistor count
4,313 million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
108 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
38.40
Texture fill rate
128.0
462.3 gflops
Floating-point performance
2x 4,096 gflops
192
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
no data
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1,400 million
Number of transistors
4,313 million
108 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
375 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 and AMD Radeon HD 7990.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
198 mm
Length
307 mm
1x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 and AMD Radeon HD 7990 can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
384 Bit
1600 MHz
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
51.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 and AMD Radeon HD 7990, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 and AMD Radeon HD 7990. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 and AMD Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 or AMD Radeon HD 7990 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
AMD Radeon HD 7990
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
AMD Radeon HD 7990
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
AMD Radeon HD 7990
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
AMD Radeon HD 7990
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
AMD Radeon HD 7990
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Cheaper ($235 (0.3x MSRP) vs $1099 (1.1x MSRP))

Less power consumption (108 Watt vs 375 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7990

22.18% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2048 vs 192)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 55 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (3 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (288.0 GB/s vs 51.2 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 or AMD Radeon HD 7990?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 7990 .

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 versus AMD Radeon HD 7990 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 7990