Quadro P5000 Max-Q vs Quadro M6000 24 GB

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	179	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.81	no data
Power efficiency	8.48	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GM200	N17E-Q5 Max-Q
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	5 March 2016 (8 years ago)	11 January 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,999	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	3072	2048
Core clock speed	988 MHz	1101 MHz
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	1366 MHz
Number of transistors	8,000 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	285.2	no data
Floating-point processing power	6.844 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	96	no data
TMUs	256	no data

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	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1653 MHz	6006 MHz
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB/s	no data
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

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

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Supported technologies

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

Optimus

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12_1
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	+	-
CUDA	5.2	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	5 March 2016	11 January 2017
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	100 Watt

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