Quadro NVS 450 vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) with Quadro NVS 450, including specs and performance data.

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
2020
15 Watt
8.99
+5188%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) outperforms NVS 450 by a whopping 5188% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking4851411
Place by popularity28not in top-100
Power efficiency41.220.33
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameVegaG98
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)11 November 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$163.14

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores5128
Core clock speedno data480 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data210 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data3.840
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0192 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 dataPCIe 1.0 x16
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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data11.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 data4x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD22-0−1
1440p16-0−1
4K9-0−1

Cost per frame, $

FPS performance in popular games

  • Full HD
    Low Preset
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  • Full HD
    High Preset
  • Full HD
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  • Full HD
    Epic Preset
  • 1440p
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  • 4K
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Cyberpunk 2077 19 0−1
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 20 0−1
Battlefield 5 27−30 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 14 0−1
Far Cry 5 21−24 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 24−27 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
+6000%
1−2
−6000%
Hitman 3 15 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 50−55 0−1
Metro Exodus 35 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 33 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 36 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 60−65
+5900%
1−2
−5900%
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 16 0−1
Battlefield 5 27−30 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 10 0−1
Far Cry 5 21−24 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 24−27 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
+6000%
1−2
−6000%
Hitman 3 15 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 50−55 0−1
Metro Exodus 25 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 27 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 60−65
+5900%
1−2
−5900%
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 14 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 9 0−1
Far Cry 5 21−24 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
+6000%
1−2
−6000%
Hitman 3 14 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 24 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 23 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 12 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 21 0−1
Battlefield 5 18−20 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16 0−1
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 11 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 5 0−1
Far Cry 5 10−11 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 35−40 0−1
Hitman 3 10 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 20 0−1
Metro Exodus 17 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 16 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8−9 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 59
+5800%
1−2
−5800%
Red Dead Redemption 2 13 0−1
Battlefield 5 8−9 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 6−7 0−1
Hitman 3 5−6 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 35−40 0−1
Metro Exodus 7−8 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7 0−1
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 4−5 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2 0−1
Far Cry 5 5−6 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 10−12 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 3−4 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 9−10 0−1

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 8.99 0.17
Recency 7 January 2020 11 November 2008
Chip lithography 7 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 5188.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 years, a 828.6% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro NVS 450 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Quadro NVS 450 is a workstation one.


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