NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 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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$ 519.99

$ 68.03 slightly less expensive

$ 588.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1261 points

51% significantly better overall score

834 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

10 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

19 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

148.23 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13627 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8558 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8002 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5470 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7115 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10194 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7720 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

5648 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11412 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11138 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

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

192.3 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

172.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

122 W

59% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

22.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

49% significantly higher texture rate

90.37 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

49% significantly better floating point performance

2.17 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

Identical

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

274th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 680 vs Quadro K5000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the Quadro K5000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K5000 has a significantly lower TDP at 122 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the Quadro K5000.