NVIDIA Quadro K100M vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K100M and AMD Radeon R7 250XE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro K100M

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K100M

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 80 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 80 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250XE

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 860 MHz vs 850 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 34.4 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 192
3.4x better floating-point performance: 1,101 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
2.8x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	860 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	34.4 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,101 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K100M	AMD Radeon R7 250XE
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK107	Cape Verde
Launch date	22 August 2014	21 August 2014
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	860 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops	1,101 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	192	640
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	34.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5