GeForce RTX 5080 vs Quadro M5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	229	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.05	no data
Power efficiency	11.29	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code name	GM204	GB203
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	29 June 2015 (9 years ago)	2025
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	10752
Core clock speed	861 MHz	2235 MHz
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	2520 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	350 Watt
Texture fill rate	132.9	846.7
Floating-point processing power	4.252 TFLOPS	54.19 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	128
TMUs	128	336
Tensor Cores	no data	336
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	84

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 5.0 x16
Length	267 mm	304 mm
Width	2" (5.1 cm)	3-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	1x 16-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	GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1653 MHz	2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 211 GB/s	160.0 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.8
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	5.2	9.1

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	350 Watt

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