NVIDIA started Quadro M5000 sales 29 June 2015 at a recommended price of $2,856.99 . This is a Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of 256-bit memory clocked at 6.61 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 211 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1 x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary Details

Some basic facts about Quadro M5000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	208
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	7.98
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name	GM204
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	29 June 2015 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,856.99
Current price	$823 (0.3x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed Specifications

Quadro M5000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro M5000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	861 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	5,200 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	132.9	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Form Factor & Compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro M5000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2" (5.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin
SLI options	+

Memory type	256 Bit
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	Up to 211 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro M5000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	DVI-I DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync

Supported Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Quadro M5000. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

ECC (Error Correcting Code)	+
3D Vision Pro	+
Mosaic	+
High-Performance Video I/O6	+
nView Desktop Management	+

API Compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro M5000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12
Shader Model	5
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	+
CUDA	5.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro M5000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro M5000 24.26

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro M5000 9391

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Quadro M5000 28251

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro M5000 33026

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro M5000 24565

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro M5000 85

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro M5000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative performance

Overall Quadro M5000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

Tesla T4 116.16

Tesla M40 24 GB 111.54

Tesla M40 108.41

Quadro M5000 100

Quadro P2200 99.26

Radeon Pro W5500 97.4

Tesla P4 93.36

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro M5000 is Radeon Pro W5500, which is slower by 3% and lower by 7 positions in our ranking.