Quadro RTX 5000 vs Tesla V100 SMX2

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 data14.24
Power efficiencyno data12.49
ArchitectureVolta (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGV100TU104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date21 June 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 cores51203072
Core clock speed1370 MHz1620 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1815 MHz
Number of transistors21,100 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate438.4348.5
Floating-point processing powerno data11.15 TFLOPS
ROPs12864
TMUs320192
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1758 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth900.1 GB/s448.0 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 Connectorsno data4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA7.07.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 June 2017 13 August 2018
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 230 Watt

RTX 5000 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 8.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla V100 SMX2 and Quadro RTX 5000. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2
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