Quadro 5000 SDI vs Radeon HD 6370M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1162not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.47no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameRobsonGF100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date26 November 2010 (13 years ago)23 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$7,899

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 cores80352
Core clock speed750 MHz513 MHz
Number of transistors292 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)11 Watt172 Watt
Texture fill rate6.00022.57
Floating-point processing power0.12 TFLOPS0.7223 TFLOPS
ROPs440
TMUs844

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 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data248 mm
Widthno dataQuad-slot

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2.5 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz750 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 23 February 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2.5 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 11 Watt 172 Watt

HD 6370M has 1463.6% lower power consumption.

5000 SDI, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6370M and Quadro 5000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6370M is a notebook card while Quadro 5000 SDI is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6370M
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