Tesla K40s vs Quadro M5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking230not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.05no data
Power efficiency11.17no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGM204GK110B
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date29 June 2015 (9 years ago)22 November 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,856.99 $7,699

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 cores20482880
Core clock speed861 MHz745 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz876 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt245 Watt
Texture fill rate132.9210.2
Floating-point processing power4.252 TFLOPS5.046 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs128240

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 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2" (5.1 cm)2-slot
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 BitGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1653 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 211 GB/s288.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 4x DisplayPortNo outputs
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Syncno data

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.

DirectX1212 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.126
CUDA5.23.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2015 22 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 245 Watt

Quadro M5000 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 63.3% lower power consumption.

Tesla K40s, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M5000 and Tesla K40s. We've got no test results to judge.


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