NVIDIA started Quadro K5000 sales 17 August 2012 at a recommended price of $2,499 . This is a 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 dual-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.

General info

Some basic facts about Quadro K5000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	405
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	3.96
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GK104
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	17 August 2012 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499
Current price	$289 (0.1x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Quadro K5000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores	1536	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	706 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	3,540 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	90.37	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K5000 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	267 mm
Width	2-slot
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 have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K5000. 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

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Quadro K5000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	+
CUDA	3.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro K5000. 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

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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: 25%

Quadro K5000 3987

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

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro K5000 11664

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro K5000 8558

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%

Quadro K5000 37

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro K5000 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 performance

Overall Quadro K5000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

FirePro W8000 102.72

FirePro D500 100.39

Quadro M2000 100.19

Quadro K5000 100

GRID M60-8Q 97.38

FirePro D300 95.15

Radeon Pro WX 4100 93.2

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K5000 is FirePro D500, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.