NVIDIA Quadro P500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P500 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro P500

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P500

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 625 MHz
4.3x more texture fill rate: 21.25 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 256 vs 160
3.4x better floating-point performance: 679.9 gflops vs 200 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
4.7x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1066 MHz
6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1630 vs 260
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 208

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2018 vs 7 April 2011
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	21.25 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	256 vs 160
Floating-point performance	679.9 gflops vs 200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1066 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1630 vs 260
PassMark - G2D Mark	239 vs 208

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 30 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 30 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6450A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1630

260

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

239

208

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P500	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
PassMark - G3D Mark	1630	260
PassMark - G2D Mark	239	208
Geekbench - OpenCL	6256
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2622
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P500	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale 2
Code name	GP108	Caicos
Launch date	5 January 2018	7 April 2011
Place in performance rating	805	808
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1519 MHz
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	679.9 gflops	200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	256	160
Texture fill rate	21.25 GTexel / s	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12_1	11.2 (11_0)
Vulkan
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	32.1 GB / s	8.53 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1066 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
Multi Monitor