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The Quadro K5000 was a enthusiast-class professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched in August 2012. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GK104 graphics processor, the card supports DirectX 12.0. The GK104 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 294 mm² and 3,540 million transistors. It features 1536 shading units, 128 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs. NVIDIA has placed 4,096 MB GDDR5 memory on the card, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 706 MHz, memory is running at 1350 MHz.
Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 122 W maximum. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort. Quadro K5000 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. The card measures 267 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 2499 US Dollars.
Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 122 W maximum. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort. Quadro K5000 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. The card measures 267 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 2499 US Dollars.
Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- GK104
- Architecture
- Kepler
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 3,540 million
- Die Size
- 294 mm²
Graphics Card
- Release Date
- Aug 17th, 2012
- Generation
- Quadro
(Kx000)
- Production
- End-of-life
- Launch Price
- 2,499 USD
- Bus Interface
- PCIe 2.0 x16
- Reviews
- 26 in our database
Relative Performance
Quadro K5000
Based on TPU review data: 'Performance Summary' at 1920x1080 Performance estimated based on architecture, shader count and clocks.
Clock Speeds
- GPU Clock
- 706 MHz
- Memory Clock
- 1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory
- Memory Size
- 4 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Memory Bus
- 256 bit
- Bandwidth
- 172.8 GB/s
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 1536
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- SMX Count
- 8
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB (per SMX)
- L2 Cache
- 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
- Pixel Rate
- 22.59 GPixel/s
- Texture Rate
- 90.37 GTexel/s
- FP32 (float) performance
- 2.169 TFLOPS
- FP64 (double) performance
- 90.37 GFLOPS (1:24)
Board Design
- Slot Width
- Dual-slot
- Length
- 10.5 inches
267 mm
- TDP
- 122 W
- Outputs
- 2x DVI
2x DisplayPort
- Power Connectors
- 1x 6-pin
- Board Number
- P2004
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12.0 (11_0)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.1.103
- CUDA
- 3.0
- Shader Model
- 5.1
GK104 GPU Notes
L1 Cache is configurable from 16 KB up to 48 KB per SMX |
The Quadro M4000 has a 67 MHz higher core clock speed than the Quadro K5000, but the Quadro K5000 has 24 more Texture Mapping Units than the Quadro M4000. As a result, the Quadro K5000 exhibits a 10 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the Quadro M4000. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.
The Quadro M4000 has a 67 MHz higher core clock speed and 24 more Render Output Units than the Quadro K5000. This results in the Quadro M4000 providing 20.7 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.
The Quadro M4000 was released over a year more recently than the Quadro K5000, and so the Quadro M4000 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the Quadro K5000.
Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.