AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and NVIDIA Quadro K5000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 706 MHz

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 706 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 90.37 GTexel / s vs 52.2 GTexel / s
Around 7% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1440
Around 4% better floating-point performance: 2,169 gflops vs 2,088 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 151 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 35% higher memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s vs 52.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 1440
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops vs 2,088 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt vs 151 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition	NVIDIA Quadro K5000
PassMark - G3D Mark		3992
PassMark - G2D Mark		432
Geekbench - OpenCL		11459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		31.318
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		681.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.062
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		32.922
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		67.311
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6288
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6288
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition	NVIDIA Quadro K5000
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Kepler
Code name	Cypress	GK104
Launch date	21 August 2012	17 August 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	706
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,499
Price now		$1,950
Value for money (0-100)		2.47
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	706 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,088 gflops	2,169 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1440	1536
Texture fill rate	52.2 GTexel / s	90.37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	151 Watt	122 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s	172.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5