ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCI vs Quadro K2100M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	722	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.63	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	GK106	Cedar
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Release date	23 July 2013 (11 years ago)	4 February 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$84.95	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	576	80
Core clock speed	667 MHz	650 MHz
Number of transistors	2,540 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	19 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.02	5.200
Floating-point processing power	0.7684 gflops	0.104 gflops

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 size	medium sized	no data
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCI
Length	no data	145 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz	666 MHz
Memory bandwidth	48.0 GB/s	5.328 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	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI	-	+
Display Port	1.2	no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus	+	-
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 July 2013	4 February 2010
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	19 Watt

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