NVIDIA Quadro K5000 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

Price

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$ 588.02

$ 796.98 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

834 points

7111 points

752% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

175 FPS

156 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

88 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

119 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

65 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.23 points

3139.35 points

2017% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8558 points

124547 points

1355% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7115 points

116149 points

1532% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10194 points

83390 points

718% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11412 points

122638 points

974% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11138 points

127645 points

1046% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

706 MHz

735 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% 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

448 GB/s

159% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

122 W

14% slightly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

22.59 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

563% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

90.37 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

231% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.17 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

783% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

6144

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

274th of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Quadro K5000 vs RTX A4000 specs and performance

For gaming, the RTX A4000 graphics card is better than the Quadro K5000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the RTX A4000 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K5000 has a slightly lower TDP at 122 W when compared to the RTX A4000 at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A4000 is better than the Quadro K5000.