Radeon RX 6450M vs Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGK104Navi 24
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date7 August 2012 (12 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,249 no data

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 cores1536768
Core clock speed706 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate90.37118.1
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS3.779 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12848
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 4.0 x4
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/s128.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2012 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 50 Watt

RX 6450M has an age advantage of 10 years, a 366.7% more advanced lithography process, and 144% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and Radeon RX 6450M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K5000 Mac Edition is a workstation card while Radeon RX 6450M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
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