Quadro RTX 6000 Passive vs Quadro M5000M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	298	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	12.60	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GM204	TU102
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 August 2015 (9 years ago)	13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$6,299

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 cores	1,536	4608
Core clock speed	975 MHz	1305 MHz
Boost clock speed	1051 MHz	1560 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	260 Watt
Texture fill rate	93.60	449.3
Floating-point processing power	2.995 TFLOPS	14.38 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	96
TMUs	96	288
Tensor Cores	no data	576
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	72

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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	672.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors	No outputs	4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Display Port	1.2	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus	+	-
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	5.2	7.5

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 August 2015	13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	24 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	260 Watt

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