Quadro T2000 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated263
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.06
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCedarTU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date28 October 2012 (12 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores801024
Core clock speed650 MHz1575 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors292 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200114.2
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS3.656 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs864

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2012 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 60 Watt

ATI HD 5490 has 215.8% lower power consumption.

T2000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5490 and Quadro T2000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5490 is a desktop card while Quadro T2000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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