RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated17
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data6.78
Power efficiencyno data16.64
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK104AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date7 August 2012 (12 years ago)3 December 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,249 $6,799

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 cores153618176
Core clock speed706 MHz915 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2505 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate90.371,423
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS91.06 TFLOPS
ROPs32192
TMUs128568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB48 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/s960.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2012 3 December 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 300 Watt

K5000 Mac Edition has 145.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and RTX 6000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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