Radeon Vega 3 Efficient vs Quadro K2100M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	721	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.63	no data
Power efficiency	4.45	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	GK106	Raven
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Release date	23 July 2013 (11 years ago)	26 May 2018 (6 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	192
Core clock speed	667 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1000 MHz
Number of transistors	2,540 million	4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.02	12.00
Floating-point processing power	0.7684 TFLOPS	0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	48	12

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)	IGP
Width	no data	IGP
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	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	752 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	48.0 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
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 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 July 2013	26 May 2018
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	15 Watt

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