NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x16 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2006
Aug 2012
Generation
Quadro NVS
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1855 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2495 MHz
-
Memory Clock
250 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
128MB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
96
18
Shading Units
6144
1440
TMUs
8
72
ROPs
4
32
RT Cores
96
-
L1 Cache
256 KB per Array
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
512 KB
L3 Cache
96 MB
-
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
1.000 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
2.000 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
122.6 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
61.32 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.916 TFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
NV43
Cypress
GPU Variant
NVS440 NPB
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
Curie
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
110 nm
40 nm
Transistors
0.146 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
154 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
31W
151W
Suggested PSU
200 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DMS-59
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)2.1 (partial)
4.4
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
3.0
5.0