Radeon R4 Graphics vs Quadro K1000M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking878not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.37no data
Power efficiency3.11no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGK107Beema
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date1 June 2012 (12 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$119.90 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 cores192128
Core clock speed850 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate13.606.400
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs168

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)IGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth28.8 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 outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2012 11 June 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 15 Watt

R4 Graphics has an age advantage of 2 years, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K1000M and Radeon R4 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K1000M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R4 Graphics is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K1000M
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