Quadro K5000 SYNC vs FirePro S7000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking408not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.64no data
Power efficiency5.37no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code namePitcairnGK104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date27 August 2012 (12 years ago)25 January 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,249 $3,299

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 cores12801536
Core clock speed950 MHz706 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt122 Watt
Texture fill rate76.0090.37
Floating-point processing power2.432 TFLOPS2.169 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs80128

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length292 mm267 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1350 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 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 DisplayPort2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2012 25 January 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 122 Watt

K5000 SYNC has an age advantage of 4 months, and 186.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S7000 and Quadro K5000 SYNC. We've got no test results to judge.


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