GeForce RTX 4090 vs Quadro M5000 SE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.80
Power efficiencyno data15.39
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGM204AD102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

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 cores204816384
Core clock speed861 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt450 Watt
Texture fill rate132.91,290
Floating-point processing power4.252 TFLOPS82.58 TFLOPS
ROPs64176
TMUs128512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm304 mm
Width2-slot3-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed6612 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.6 GB/s1.01 TB/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 Connectors1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 450 Watt

M5000 SE has 350% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M5000 SE and GeForce RTX 4090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M5000 SE is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4090 is a desktop one.


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