Radeon R5 235X OEM vs Quadro K5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking438not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.63no data
Power efficiency5.92no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGK104Caicos
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date17 August 2012 (12 years ago)21 December 2013 (10 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 cores1536160
Core clock speed706 MHz875 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate90.377.000
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1288

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 2.0 x16
Length267 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/s14.4 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 DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 August 2012 21 December 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 18 Watt

Quadro K5000 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

R5 235X OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 577.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5000 and Radeon R5 235X OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K5000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R5 235X OEM is a desktop one.


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