Quadro K6000 SDI vs Quadro K5200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking337not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.11no data
Power efficiency7.59no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK110BGK110
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,699.74 $8,599

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 cores23042880
Core clock speed667 MHz902 MHz
Boost clock speed771 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,080 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt239 Watt
Texture fill rate148.0216.5
Floating-point processing power3.553 TFLOPS5.196 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs192240

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
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.3 GB/s288.4 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 DisplayPort2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

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
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA3.53.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2014 23 July 2013
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 239 Watt

Quadro K5200 has an age advantage of 11 months, and 59.3% lower power consumption.

K6000 SDI, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5200 and Quadro K6000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.


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