Radeon RX 590 GME vs Quadro K4100M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	547	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.51	no data
Power efficiency	4.90	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GK104	Polaris 20
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Release date	23 July 2013 (11 years ago)	9 March 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,499	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	1152	2304
Core clock speed	706 MHz	1257 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1420 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	175 Watt
Texture fill rate	67.78	204.5
Floating-point processing power	1.627 TFLOPS	6.543 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	96	144

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 size	large	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	241 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

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	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	256.0 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 Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+
Display Port	1.2	no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus	+	-
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	+	1.3
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 July 2013	9 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	175 Watt

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