Radeon PRO W7900 vs Quadro K5000 SYNC

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated13
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data16.79
Power efficiencyno data17.61
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK104Navi 31
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date25 January 2013 (11 years ago)13 April 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,299 $3,999

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 cores15366144
Core clock speed706 MHz1855 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2495 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt295 Watt
Texture fill rate90.37958.1
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS61.32 TFLOPS
ROPs32192
TMUs128384
Ray Tracing Coresno data96

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 mm280 mm
Width3-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin2x 8-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 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/s864.0 GB/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 Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x SDI3x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x mini-DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 January 2013 13 April 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 295 Watt

K5000 SYNC has 141.8% lower power consumption.

PRO W7900, 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 SYNC and Radeon PRO W7900. We've got no test results to judge.


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