AMD FirePro W7100 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Compare AMD FirePro W7100 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Price

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$ 189.96

$ 398.06 significantly less expensive

$ 588.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1150 points

37% slightly better overall score

834 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

26 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

25868 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7115 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25403 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10194 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24202 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11412 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

27600 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11138 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

920 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160 GB/s

172.8 GB/s

8% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

122 W

22% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.44 Gigapixels/s

30% slightly higher pixel rate

22.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

103 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

90.37 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.3 TFLOPS

52% significantly better floating point performance

2.17 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

16% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

255th of 586

274th of 586

Family

The product line

FirePro

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

FirePro W7100 vs Quadro K5000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FirePro W7100 beats the Quadro K5000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the FirePro W7100 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the FirePro W7100 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro K5000 has a slightly lower TDP at 122 W when compared to the FirePro W7100 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the FirePro W7100 over the Quadro K5000.