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NVIDIA Quadro 5000: specs and benchmarks
Price now
1530$
Games supported
63%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 513 MHz
- Max video memory 2.5 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 3000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2011
Performance
4.87
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro 5000 sales 23 February 2011 at a recommended price of $2,499. This is a Fermi architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2.5 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3 GHz are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 120.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 248 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 152 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
4.87%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro 5000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 543 | |
| Value for money | 0.08 | |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF100 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 23 February 2011 (12 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,499 | |
| Current price | $1530 (0.6x MSRP) | of 158889 (A100 PCIe) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Quadro 5000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro 5000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 352 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 513 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 3,100 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 152 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 22.57 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 722.3 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro 5000 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 | 248 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro 5000: 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 | 2.5 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 120.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 5000. 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 | 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort |
API support
APIs supported by Quadro 5000, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 2.0 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro 5000. 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.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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: 24%
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%
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%
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Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Quadro 5000. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 66 Mh/s |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good Quadro 5000 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 perfomance
Overall Quadro 5000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro 5000 is Radeon Pro W5500M, which is faster by 5% and higher by 13 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro 5000:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro 5000 according to our statistics.
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