AMD Radeon R7 450 vs NVIDIA Quadro K2000M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K2000M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K2000M

Price

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$ 149.99

$ 144.02

$ 5.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

297 points

167% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

8 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10702 points

315% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2575 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9779 points

273% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2616 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10058 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3121 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8478 points

224% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

2616 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

745 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

55 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

148% significantly higher pixel rate

5.96 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

24% slightly higher texture rate

23.84 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

380th of 586

492nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2012 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

Radeon R7 450 vs Quadro K2000M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R7 450 graphics card is better than the Quadro K2000M in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 450 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro K2000M has a slightly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the Radeon R7 450 at 65 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 450 over the Quadro K2000M.