Radeon Sky 900 vs Quadro P5000 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking187not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.23no data
Power efficiency20.89no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGP104Tahiti
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date11 January 2017 (7 years ago)27 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,885 no data

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 cores20483584
Core clock speed1278 MHz825 MHz
Boost clock speed1582 MHz950 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate202.5106.4
Floating-point processing power6.48 TFLOPS3.405 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs128112

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 sizelargeno data
Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data305 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth192 GB/s480 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Display Port1.4no data
Dual-link DVI support-+

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-
3D Stereo+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.

DirectX1212 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2017 27 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 300 Watt

P5000 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P5000 Mobile and Radeon Sky 900. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P5000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Radeon Sky 900 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P5000 Mobile
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