AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Price

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$ 987.00

$ 588.02

$ 398.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

834 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

9 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7115 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11412 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 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

2 GB/s

172.8 GB/s

8539% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

122 W

22% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

22.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

90.37 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.37 TFLOPS

9% slightly better floating point performance

2.17 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1536

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

279th of 586

274th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon R9 270 vs Quadro K5000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro K5000 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 270 in our tests.

The Radeon R9 270 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K5000 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K5000 has a slightly lower TDP at 122 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 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 Quadro K5000 is better than the Radeon R9 270.