ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 vs Quadro 4000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking704not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency1.88no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF100Park
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date2 November 2010 (14 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 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 cores25680
Core clock speed475 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)142 Watt11 Watt
Texture fill rate15.205.200
Floating-point processing power0.4864 TFLOPS0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs328

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed702 MHz667 MHz
Memory bandwidth89.86 GB/s10.67 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, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 November 2010 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 142 Watt 11 Watt

Quadro 4000 has an age advantage of 9 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

ATI Mobility HD 5450, on the other hand, has 1190.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 4000 and Mobility Radeon HD 5450. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 4000 is a workstation card while Mobility Radeon HD 5450 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 4000
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