NVIDIA Quadro M5000 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 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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$ 199.96

$ 1185.04 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2374 points

7111 points

199% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

48 FPS

175 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

88 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

119 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

65 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

330.93 points

3139.35 points

848% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

24565 points

124547 points

407% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28016 points

116149 points

314% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33588 points

83390 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29387 points

122638 points

317% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32919 points

127645 points

287% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

42% much higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1560 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 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

211.6 GB/s

448 GB/s

111% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

140 W

7% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

66.43 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

125% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

132.9 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

125% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.25 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

350% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

6144

200% 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

186th of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX A4000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A4000 GPU is faster than the Quadro M5000 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Quadro M5000 has a much higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the RTX A4000 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the Quadro M5000 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A4000 over the Quadro M5000.