GeForce GTX 480 512 vs Quadro M5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	223	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.11	no data
Power efficiency	11.62	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GM204	GF100
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	29 June 2015 (9 years ago)	no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,856.99	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2048	512
Core clock speed	861 MHz	527 MHz
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,200 million	3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	375 Watt
Texture fill rate	132.9	33.73
Floating-point processing power	4.252 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	48
TMUs	128	64

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	292 mm
Width	2" (5.1 cm)	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	2x 8-pin
SLI options	+	-

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 type	256 Bit	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1536 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1653 MHz	2.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	Up to 211 GB/s	134.4 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync	no data
HDMI	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

ECC (Error Correcting Code)	+	no data
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
High-Performance Video I/O6	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	5.2	2.0

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1536 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	375 Watt

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