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).

NVIDIA Quadro K5000M

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

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	805	806
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