Quadro 5000 SDI vs Quadro FX 4700 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking919not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.54no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameG92GF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 April 2008 (16 years ago)23 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,999 $7,899

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 cores128352
Core clock speed600 MHz513 MHz
Number of transistors754 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)226 Watt172 Watt
Texture fill rate38.4022.57
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPS0.7223 TFLOPS
ROPs1640
TMUs6444

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 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm248 mm
Width2-slotQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2.5 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz750 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s120.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.12.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2008 23 February 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2.5 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 226 Watt 172 Watt

5000 SDI has an age advantage of 2 years, a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 31.4% lower power consumption.

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