NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00

$ 253.02 significantly less expensive

$ 588.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

149% significantly better overall score

834 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

150% significantly higher Blender score

148.23 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8558 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5470 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7115 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10194 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

5648 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11412 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11138 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

141% significantly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

1% slightly lower TDP

122 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

274th of 586

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Quadro K5000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 beats the Quadro K5000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Quadro K5000 at 122 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the Quadro K5000.