Quadro4 380 XGL vs Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1111not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.46no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameCaicosNV18 A4
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 April 2011 (13 years ago)12 November 2002 (21 year 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 cores160no data
Core clock speed750 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistorsno data29 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.100
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz256 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8.192 GB/s
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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX118.0
OpenGLno data1.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2011 12 November 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

HD 6450 GDDR5 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 and Quadro4 380 XGL. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 is a desktop card while Quadro4 380 XGL is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
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NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL
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