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NVIDIA Quadro K5000: specs and benchmarks

NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro K5000 sales 17 August 2012 at a recommended price of $2,499. This is Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 172.8 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot 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.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 20.63 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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General info

Of Quadro K5000's architecture, market type and release date.
Place in performance rating
164
 
Value for money (0-100)
9.14
 
Architecture
Kepler
 
Code name
GK104
 
Type
Workstation
 
Release date
17 August 2012
 
Launch price (MSRP)
$2,499
 
of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)
Price now
$700.83
 
of 4403.52 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

Quadro K5000's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K5000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines
1536
 
of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)
Core clock speed
706 MHz
 
of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)
Transistor count
3,540 million
 
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
 
of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)
Power consumption (TDP)
122 Watt
 
of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate
90.37 GTexel / s
 
of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)
Floating-point performance
2,169 gflops
 
of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Quadro K5000's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
 
Length
267 mm
 
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
 

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K5000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
 
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
 
of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)
Memory bus width
256 Bit
 
of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)
Memory clock speed
5400 MHz
 
of 14000
Memory bandwidth
172.8 GB / s
 
of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K5000.
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
 

API support

APIs supported by Quadro K5000, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12.0 (11_0)
 
OpenGL
4.6
 
Vulkan
+
 

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Quadro K5000. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
20.63
Passmark
4016
Octane Render OctaneBench
37

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Quadro K5000. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
111 Mh/s
 
 
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
2.2 Mh/s
 
 

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Quadro K5000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Fortnite

2018

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Fortnite official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum HD Graphics 4000
recommended GeForce GTX 660

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

2017

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum GeForce GTX 960
recommended GeForce GTX 1060

Overwatch

2016

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Overwatch official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum HD Graphics 4400
recommended GeForce GTX 660

GTA V

2015

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to GTA V official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum GeForce 9800 GT
recommended GeForce GTX 660

Rainbow Six Siege

2015

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Rainbow Six Siege official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum GeForce GTX 460
recommended Radeon HD 7970

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

2014

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum GeForce 6800
recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Dota 2

2013

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Counter-Strike: GO official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
recommended GeForce 6600

League of Legends

2009

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to League of Legends official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum GeForce 6150 LE
recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

Quadro K5000 performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

Quadro K5000
minimum Radeon HD 2400
recommended Radeon HD 5970

Relative perfomance

Overall Quadro K5000 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
100 %
NVIDIA Quadro K5000

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Quadro K5000 from AMD is FirePro W7000, which is slower by 3% and lower by 8 positions in our rating.
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Other GPUs

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Advices and comments

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