Radeon R7 M460 vs Quadro 5000

Place in performance ranking	592	755
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.26	0.12
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	GF100	Meso
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	23 February 2011 (13 years ago)	21 February 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	no data
Current price	$991 (0.4x MSRP)	$900

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro 5000 has 117% better value for money than R7 M460.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	352	384
Core clock speed	513 MHz	984 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1125 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	152 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	22.57	27.00
Floating-point performance	722.3 gflops	864.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Quadro 5000 and Radeon R7 M460 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	248 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2.5 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	120.0 GB/s	14.4 GB/s
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 Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro 5000 4.99
+77.6%

R7 M460 2.81

Quadro 5000 outperforms Radeon R7 M460 by 78% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro 5000 1931
+77.8%

R7 M460 1086

Quadro 5000 outperforms Radeon R7 M460 by 78% in Passmark.