ATI 3D Rage vs Quadro 5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking628not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.14no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code nameGF100Mach64 GT
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date23 February 2011 (13 years ago)1 April 1996 (28 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores352no data
Core clock speed513 MHz44 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million5 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm500 nm
Power consumption (TDP)152 Wattno data
Texture fill rate22.570.04
Floating-point processing power0.7223 TFLOPSno data
ROPs401
TMUs441

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5EDO
Maximum RAM amount2.5 GB2 MB
Memory bus width320 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz57 MHz
Memory bandwidth120.0 GB/s456.0 MB/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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)5.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 February 2011 1 April 1996
Maximum RAM amount 2.5 GB 2 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 500 nm

Quadro 5000 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 127900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 5000 and 3D Rage. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 5000 is a workstation graphics card while 3D Rage is a desktop one.


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