Radeon R6 Graphics vs Quadro M1000M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking531not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.78no data
Power efficiency12.89no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGM107Spectre Lite
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date18 August 2015 (9 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$200.89 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 cores512384
Core clock speed993 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speed1072 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate31.7814.40
Floating-point processing power1.017 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3224

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GB/4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1253 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80 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
Display Port1.2no 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.

DirectX1212 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 August 2015 17 September 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 15 Watt

M1000M has an age advantage of 11 months.

R6 Graphics, on the other hand, has 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M1000M and Radeon R6 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M1000M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R6 Graphics is a desktop one.


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