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NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (172.8GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1537MHz
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
2.169 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Mobile +190%
6.296 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Aug 2012
Release Date
Mar 2022
Quadro
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

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Base Clock
832 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1537 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
172.8GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s

Render Config

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-
-
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-

Theoretical Performance

22.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
2.169 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
90.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS

Board Design

122W
TDP
30W
300 W
Suggested PSU
-
2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GK104
GPU Name
GA107S
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-
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
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