NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 3500M 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 5 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (172.8GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 122W)
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Mar 2007
Quadro
Generation
Quadro FX Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-III
Clock Speeds
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1350 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
172.8GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
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1536
Shading Units
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128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
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-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.200 GPixel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.80 GTexel/s
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-
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2.169 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
90.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
45W
300 W
Suggested PSU
-
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G71
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Kepler
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.278 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
