NVIDIA Quadro K5000M vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K5000M and AMD Radeon HD 6450A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 13.5x more texture fill rate: 67.31 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
  • 8.4x more pipelines: 1344 vs 160
  • 8.1x better floating-point performance: 1,615 gflops vs 200 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 1066 MHz
  • 10.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2779 vs 260
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 355 vs 208
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 August 2012 vs 7 April 2011
Texture fill rate 67.31 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 160
Floating-point performance 1,615 gflops vs 200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz vs 1066 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2779 vs 260
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 vs 208

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

  • Around 4% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 601 MHz
  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 100 Watt
Core clock speed 625 MHz vs 601 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K5000M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6450A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2779
260
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
355
208
Name NVIDIA Quadro K5000M AMD Radeon HD 6450A
PassMark - G3D Mark 2779 260
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 208
Geekbench - OpenCL 5107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 24.713
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 685.1
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.189
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.929
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 68.712
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4825
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4825
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro K5000M AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Code name GK104 Caicos
Launch date 7 August 2012 7 April 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $329.99
Place in performance rating 806 807
Price now $391
Type Mobile workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 8.47

Technical info

Core clock speed 601 MHz 625 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,615 gflops 200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1344 160
Texture fill rate 67.31 GTexel / s 5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB / s 8.53 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz 1066 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0