Radeon RX 470D 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 evaluation3.08no data
Power efficiency10.14no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGP107Ellesmere
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date7 February 2017 (7 years ago)21 October 2016 (8 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 cores2561792
Core clock speed1228 MHz926 MHz
Boost clock speed1252 MHz1206 MHz
Number of transistors3,300 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate20.03135.1
Floating-point processing power0.641 TFLOPS4.322 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs16112

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 x16
Length145 mm241 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1002 MHz1650 MHz
Memory bandwidth32.06 GB/s211.2 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-DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2017 21 October 2016
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 120 Watt

Quadro P400 has an age advantage of 3 months, and 300% lower power consumption.

RX 470D, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P400 and Radeon RX 470D. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P400 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 470D is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P400
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