Quadro 5000 SDI vs Quadro P600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking492not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.16no data
Power efficiency14.84no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGP107GF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date7 February 2017 (7 years ago)23 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$178 $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 cores384352
Core clock speed1430 MHz513 MHz
Boost clock speed1620 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,300 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt172 Watt
Texture fill rate38.8822.57
Floating-point processing power1.244 TFLOPS0.7223 TFLOPS
ROPs1640
TMUs2444

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
Length145 mm248 mm
Width1-slotQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 amount4 GB2.5 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed1252 MHz750 MHz
Memory bandwidth80.13 GB/s120.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.75.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.01.1
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA6.12.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2017 23 February 2011
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2.5 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 172 Watt

Quadro P600 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 330% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P600 and Quadro 5000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.


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