NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM Quadro FX 1800 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 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (172.8GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 's Advantages
Lower TDP (59W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
+1132%
2.169 TFLOPS
Quadro FX 1800
0.176 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Mar 2009
Quadro
Generation
Quadro FX
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
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
172.8GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
1536
Shading Units
64
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.169 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
176.0 GFLOPS
90.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
59W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94 GL-U
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
240 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
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
