NVIDIA Quadro K5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

834 points
57% significantly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
Identical
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7115 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11412 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
300% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 602
330th of 602

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 6000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Quadro K5000 vs Radeon HD 6870 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K5000 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K5000 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K5000 over the Radeon HD 6870.

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