Quadro M4000 vs Radeon R7 250

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro M4000 and Radeon R7 250, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro M4000 stacks up against Radeon R7 250, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro M4000 Radeon R7 250
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 75 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin N/A
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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  • Quadro M4000 has 60% more power consumption, than Radeon R7 250.
  • Quadro M4000 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon R7 250 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Quadro M4000 has 6 GB more memory, than Radeon R7 250.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro M4000 is build with Maxwell 2.0 architecture, and Radeon R7 250 - with GCN.
  • Quadro M4000 and Radeon R7 250 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Quadro M4000 is 73 mm longer, than Radeon R7 250.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro M4000 is 4858 MHz higher, than Radeon R7 250.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 3−4
ultra / 1080p 21−24 1−2
QHD / 1440p 16−18 0−1
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 14−16
medium / 1080p 40−45 5−6
The average gaming FPS of Quadro M4000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 583% more, than Radeon R7 250.

Full Specs

  Quadro M4000 Radeon R7 250
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN
Code name GM204 Oland XT
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 29 June 2015 1 October 2013
Pipelines 1664 384
Core clock speed 773 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz
Transistor count 5,200 million 950 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 80.39 25.20
Floating-point performance 2,573 gflops 716.8 gflops
Length 241 mm 168 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12
Shader Model 5 5.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan +
CUDA 5.2
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0
SLI options +
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 299 Mh/s 117 Mh/s
Design reference
CrossFire +
DDMA audio +
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 3 Mh/s
3D Vision Pro +
Mosaic +
Width 1" (2.5 cm)
Number of simultaneous displays 4
nView Desktop Management +
AppAcceleration +
Multi-display synchronization Quadro Sync
High-Performance Video I/O6 +
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