Quadro RTX 6000 Passive vs Quadro RTX 5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking96not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.99no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,299 $6,299

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 cores30724608
Core clock speed1620 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speed1815 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate348.5449.3
Floating-point processing power11.15 TFLOPS14.38 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs192288
Tensor Cores384576
Ray Tracing Cores4872

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-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s672.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 260 Watt

RTX 5000 has 13% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000 Passive, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 and Quadro RTX 6000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.


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