Quadro 5000 SDI vs HD Graphics (Broadwell)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1112not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 Broadwell (2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT1GF100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date5 January 2015 (9 years ago)23 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$7,899

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12352
Core clock speed100 MHz513 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data172 Watt
Texture fill rateno data22.57
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7223 TFLOPS
ROPsno data40
TMUsno data44

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data248 mm
Widthno dataQuad-slot

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2.5 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speedno data750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data120.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2015 23 February 2011
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm

HD Graphics (Broadwell) has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Broadwell) and Quadro 5000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Broadwell) is a notebook card while Quadro 5000 SDI is a workstation one.


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