Radeon Graphics 448SP vs Quadro K5000 SYNC

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)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGK104Renoir
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 January 2013 (11 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,299 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 cores1536448
Core clock speed706 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate90.3753.20
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs12828

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 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width3-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1350 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x SDIMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 January 2013 6 January 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 448SP has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 713.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5000 SYNC and Radeon Graphics 448SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K5000 SYNC is a workstation graphics card while Radeon Graphics 448SP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC
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