Quadro M2000 vs Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated442
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data3.63
Power efficiencyno data9.45
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameEllesmereGM206
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)8 April 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$450 $437.75

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 cores2304768
Core clock speed1000 MHz796 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz1163 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate155.155.82
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS1.786 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs14448

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data201 mm
Widthno data1" (2.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1653 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sUp to 106 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displaysno data4

Supported technologies

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

3D Vision Prono data+
Mosaicno data+
nView Desktop Managementno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 8 April 2016
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

RX 480 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Quadro M2000, on the other hand, has 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 Mobile and Quadro M2000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 Mobile is a notebook card while Quadro M2000 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile
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