NVIDIA Quadro K4000M vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K4000M and ATI Radeon HD 4250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro K4000M

ATI Radeon HD 4250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K4000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 1% higher core clock speed: 601 MHz vs 594 MHz
20.2x more texture fill rate: 48.08 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 960 vs 40
24.3x better floating-point performance: 1,154 gflops vs 47.52 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 2800 MHz vs 792 MHz
16.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1978 vs 123
5.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 4470 vs 782
5.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 4470 vs 782

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 25 February 2009
Core clock speed	601 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate	48.08 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
Pipelines	960 vs 40
Floating-point performance	1,154 gflops vs 47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz vs 792 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1978 vs 123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4470 vs 782
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4470 vs 782

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4250

4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 408 vs 301

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 100 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	408 vs 301

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K4000M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1978

123

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

301

408

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

4470

782

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

4470

782

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K4000M	ATI Radeon HD 4250
PassMark - G3D Mark	1978	123
PassMark - G2D Mark	301	408
Geekbench - OpenCL	5986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.054
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	544.601
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.46
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	22.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	36.553
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3855
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	4957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4470	782
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3855
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	4957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4470	782

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K4000M	ATI Radeon HD 4250
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK104	RV620
Launch date	1 June 2012	25 February 2009
Place in performance rating	838	839
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	601 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,154 gflops	47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	960	40
Texture fill rate	48.08 GTexel / s	2.376 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	89.6 GB / s	6.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	yes
Technologies
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0