NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro CX
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM Quadro CX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (172.8GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (122W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
+369%
2.169 TFLOPS
Quadro CX
0.462 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Nov 2008
Quadro
Generation
Quadro CX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
172.8GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
24
1536
Shading Units
192
128
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
192 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.45 GPixel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.53 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.169 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
462.3 GFLOPS
90.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
122W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT200B
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-
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
