Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs Quadro P6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.94no data
Power efficiency10.89no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGP102GK104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 October 2016 (8 years ago)7 August 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,999 $2,249

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 cores38401536
Core clock speed1506 MHz706 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHzno data
Number of transistors11,800 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt122 Watt
Texture fill rate394.890.37
Floating-point processing power12.63 TFLOPS2.169 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs240128

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 2.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2" (5.1 cm)2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 8-pin1x 6-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 type384 BitGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount24 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1127 MHz1350 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 432 GB/s172.8 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 DisplayPort2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Sync IIno 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_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA6.13.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2016 7 August 2012
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 122 Watt

Quadro P6000 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

K5000 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 104.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P6000 and Quadro K5000 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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