FirePro D300 vs Quadro K5000

Place in performance ranking	406	412
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.99	4.21
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	GK104	Pitcairn
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	17 August 2012 (11 years ago)	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	no data
Current price	$289 (0.1x MSRP)	$260

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro D300 has 6% better value for money than Quadro K5000.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	1280
Core clock speed	706 MHz	850 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	90.37	68.00
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops	2,176 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	242 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB/s	162.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

4x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	3.0	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. 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 K5000 10.30
+2.5%

FirePro D300 10.05

Quadro K5000 outperforms FirePro D300 by 2% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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 K5000 11376

FirePro D300 19273
+69.4%

FirePro D300 outperforms Quadro K5000 by 69% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.