Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameTahitiGK104
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 March 2013 (11 years ago)7 August 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 $2,249

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 cores17921536
Core clock speed800 MHz706 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt122 Watt
Texture fill rate89.6090.37
Floating-point processing power2.867 TFLOPS2.169 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs112128

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
Length279 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-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 amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1350 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/s172.8 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 March 2013 7 August 2012
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 122 Watt

HD 7950 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 7 months.

K5000 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 63.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and Quadro K5000 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition is a desktop card while Quadro K5000 Mac Edition is a workstation one.


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