NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2012
Oct 2013
Generation
Quadro Kepler
Volcanic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
706 MHz
-
Boost Clock
706 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
172.8GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1536
2816
TMUs
128
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
44

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
22.59 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
90.37 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.169 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
90.37 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GK104
Hawaii
Architecture
Kepler
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
438 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)

Board Design

TDP
122W
290W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.2.170
CUDA
3.0
-
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5