Radeon R5 A230 vs Quadro P400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking672not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.10no data
Power efficiency10.25no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGP107Jet
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date7 February 2017 (7 years ago)7 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$119.99 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 cores256320
Core clock speed1228 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speed1252 MHz855 MHz
Number of transistors3,300 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.0317.10
Floating-point processing power0.641 TFLOPS0.5472 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs1620

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1002 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth32.06 GB/s16 GB/s

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 Connectors3x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2017 7 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

Quadro P400 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R5 A230, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P400 and Radeon R5 A230. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P400 is a workstation card while Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P400
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