Radeon R4 Graphics vs Quadro M6000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking178not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.24no data
Power efficiency8.47no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGM200Beema
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date21 March 2015 (9 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,199.99 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 cores3072128
Core clock speed988 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1114 MHzno data
Number of transistors8,000 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate213.96.400
Floating-point processing power6.844 TFLOPS0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs964
TMUs1928

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 3.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount12 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1653 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth317.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 4x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2015 11 June 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 15 Watt

Quadro M6000 has an age advantage of 9 months.

R4 Graphics, on the other hand, has 1566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M6000 and Radeon R4 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M6000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R4 Graphics is a desktop one.


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