Quadro M5000 SE vs Quadro K5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking440not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.64no data
Power efficiency5.82no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGK104GM204
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date17 August 2012 (12 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$2,499 no data

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 cores15362048
Core clock speed706 MHz861 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1038 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate90.37132.9
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS4.252 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs128128

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 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan+-
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 100 Watt

M5000 SE has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 22% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5000 and Quadro M5000 SE. We've got no test results to judge.


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