NVIDIA Quadro K5000 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Price

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$ 588.02

$ 134.75

$ 453.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

834 points

1252 points

50% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

19 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

17 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

15 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.23 points

221.61 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8558 points

16648 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7115 points

18372 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10194 points

20969 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11412 points

20001 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11138 points

23838 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

706 MHz

800 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

172.8 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

122 W

120 W

1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

22.59 Gigapixels/s

49.47 Gigapixels/s

118% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

90.37 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.17 TFLOPS

2.57 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

1664

8% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

274th of 586

247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro K5000 vs Quadro M4000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro M4000 graphics card is better than the Quadro K5000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro M4000 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 the Quadro M4000 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 M4000 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro M4000 over the Quadro K5000.