Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics vs Quadro 4000M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking731not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.31no data
Power efficiency2.33no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF104Spectre SL
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date22 February 2011 (13 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores336256
Core clock speed475 MHz626 MHz
Boost clock speedno data847 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt17 Watt
Texture fill rate26.6010.02
Floating-point processing power0.6384 TFLOPS0.3205 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs5616

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed625 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2011 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 17 Watt

R5 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 3 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 488.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 4000M and Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 4000M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 4000M
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