FirePro S10000 Passive vs Quadro K4000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking547not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.54no data
Power efficiency6.35no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK106Tahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)12 November 2012 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,269 $3,599

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 cores7683584
Core clock speed810 MHz825 MHz
Boost clock speedno data950 MHz
Number of transistors2,540 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate51.84106.4
Floating-point processing power1.244 TFLOPS3.405 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs64112

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 supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm305 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1404 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.8 GB/s480 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, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 12 November 2012
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 750 Watt

Quadro K4000 has an age advantage of 3 months, and 837.5% lower power consumption.

S10000 Passive, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K4000 and FirePro S10000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro K4000
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