NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 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 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (172.8GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
1528 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
+9759%
2.169 TFLOPS
Quadro NVS 420
0.022 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Jan 2009
Quadro
Generation
Quadro NVS
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
172.8GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
1
1536
Shading Units
8
128
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.169 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
90.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
40W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x VHDCI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G98
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-
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
86 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
