AMD Radeon R7 450 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

297 points

3% slightly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

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4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10702 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7697 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10058 points

11800 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

771 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

115.2 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

24.67 Gigapixels/s

66% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

98.69 Gigatexels/s

233% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1536

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

381st of 586

383rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 K5100M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 450 GPU is faster than the Quadro K5100M in gaming.

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, the Quadro K5100M has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Quadro K5100M at 100 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R7 450 is faster than the Quadro K5100M.