Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile vs Quadro M5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking229not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.01no data
Power efficiency11.21no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGM204TU102
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date29 June 2015 (9 years ago)4 September 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,856.99 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 cores20484608
Core clock speed861 MHz1275 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate132.9419.0
Floating-point processing power4.252 TFLOPS13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs128288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2" (5.1 cm)no data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinno data
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 type256 BitGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1653 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 211 GB/s672.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Syncno data
G-SYNC support-+

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
VR Readyno data+
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA5.27.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2015 4 September 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 200 Watt

Quadro M5000 has 33.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M5000 and Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M5000 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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