Quadro 5000 SDI vs Quadro K6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking259not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.21no data
Power efficiency6.44no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGK110BGF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)23 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,265 $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 cores2880352
Core clock speed797 MHz513 MHz
Boost clock speed902 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,080 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt172 Watt
Texture fill rate216.522.57
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS0.7223 TFLOPS
ROPs4840
TMUs24044

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 2.0 x16
Length267 mm248 mm
Width2-slotQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 amount12 GB2.5 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz750 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.4 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, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI

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
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA3.52.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2013 23 February 2011
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 2.5 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 172 Watt

Quadro K6000 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 380% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

5000 SDI, on the other hand, has 30.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K6000 and Quadro 5000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.


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