Radeon E9173 PCIe vs Quadro Plex 2200 S4

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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGT200BLexa
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2008 (16 years ago)3 October 2017 (7 years ago)

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 cores240512
Core clock speed648 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1219 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)600 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate51.8439.01
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs8032

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length522 mmno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s48 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2008 3 October 2017
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 600 Watt 35 Watt

Plex 2200 S4 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

E9173 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1614.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro Plex 2200 S4 and Radeon E9173 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro Plex 2200 S4 is a workstation card while Radeon E9173 PCIe is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4
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