Radeon R5 330 OEM vs Quadro FX 380 LP

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1313not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.78no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGT218Hainan
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 December 2009 (15 years ago)5 May 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 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 cores16320
Core clock speed550 MHz830 MHz
Boost clock speedno data855 MHz
Number of transistors260 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate4.40017.10
Floating-point processing power0.044 TFLOPS0.5472 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs820

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s14.4 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2009 5 May 2015
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 50 Watt

FX 380 LP has 78.6% lower power consumption.

R5 330 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 380 LP and Radeon R5 330 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 380 LP is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R5 330 OEM is a desktop one.


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