Quadro M5000 SE vs FirePro W4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code namePitcairnGM204
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date7 August 2012 (12 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

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 cores7682048
Core clock speed825 MHz861 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1038 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate39.60132.9
Floating-point processing power1.267 TFLOPS4.252 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs48128

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
Length183 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s211.6 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, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 100 Watt

FirePro W4000 has 33.3% lower power consumption.

M5000 SE, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4000 and Quadro M5000 SE. We've got no test results to judge.


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