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.

 

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 3994
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 705
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