Quadro RTX 5000 vs Quadro P5000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated97
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data14.32
Power efficiencyno data12.54
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameN17E-Q5 Max-QTU104
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date11 January 2017 (7 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,299

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 cores20483072
Core clock speed1101 MHz1620 MHz
Boost clock speed1366 MHz1815 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rateno data348.5
Floating-point processing powerno data11.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed6006 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/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 Connectorsno data4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2017 13 August 2018
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 230 Watt

P5000 Max-Q has 130% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P5000 Max-Q and Quadro RTX 5000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P5000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while Quadro RTX 5000 is a workstation one.


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