NVIDIA Quadro M5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 199.96

$ 1620.03 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2374 points

33119 points

1295% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

48 FPS

787 FPS

738 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

382 FPS

346 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

567 FPS

534 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

318 FPS

290 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

330.93 points

11723.75 points

3442% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29387 points

318192 points

982% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32919 points

273214 points

729% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

2235 MHz

112% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

2520 MHz

142% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211.6 GB/s

1010 GB/s

377% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

200% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

66.43 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

628% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

132.9 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

870% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.25 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1842% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

16384

700% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

512

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

185th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.4

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Quadro M5000 vs GeForce RTX 4090 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the Quadro M5000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M5000 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the Quadro M5000.