Quadro K5000 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro K5000 Mac Edition sales 7 August 2012 at a recommended price of $2,249. This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.35 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 172.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 122 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro K5000 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK104 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 7 August 2012 (14 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,249 | of 34,999 (B200 SXM6) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro K5000 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K5000 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1536 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 706 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 706 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 3,540 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 122 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 90.37 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.169 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 128 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K5000 Mac Edition 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 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K5000 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1350 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 172.8 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K5000 Mac Edition. 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 | 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 1.2 |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Quadro K5000 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (5.1) | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.175 | |
| CUDA | 3.0 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K5000 Mac Edition is FirePro D300.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
