Quadro K5000 SYNC vs Quadro K600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking908not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.20no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK107GK104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)25 January 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 $3,299

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 cores1921536
Core clock speed876 MHz706 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Watt122 Watt
Texture fill rate14.0290.37
Floating-point processing power0.3364 gflops2.169 gflops
ROPs1632
TMUs16128

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
Length160 mm267 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1782 MHz5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.51 GB/s172.8 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, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x SDI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA3.03.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 25 January 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 122 Watt

Quadro K600 has an age advantage of 1 month, and 197.6% lower power consumption.

K5000 SYNC, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K600 and Quadro K5000 SYNC. We've got no test results to judge.


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