Quadro P3200 vs Radeon R7 450 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	223
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	3.66
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	N18E-Q1
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	30 June 2016 (7 years ago)	27 February 2017 (7 years ago)
Current price	$180	$2122

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	1792
Core clock speed	925 MHz	708 - 1202 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1228 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	78 Watt
Texture fill rate	29.60	172.8
Floating-point performance	947.2 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R7 450 OEM and Quadro P3200 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	4.5 GB/s	7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	168.3 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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus

no data

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.1 (1.2)	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.170	1.2.131
CUDA	no data	6.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	30 June 2016	27 February 2017
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	78 Watt

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