Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics vs Quadro 1000M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking983not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.11no data
Power efficiency2.26no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF108Spectre SL
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date13 January 2011 (13 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$174.95 no data

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 cores96192
Core clock speed700 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speedno data655 MHz
Number of transistors585 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt17 Watt
Texture fill rate11.206.396
Floating-point processing power0.2688 TFLOPS0.2047 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1612

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)IGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 January 2011 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 17 Watt

R4 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 3 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 164.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 1000M and Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 1000M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 1000M
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