AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8950 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
• Around 20% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 706 MHz
• Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 103.6 GTexel / s vs 90.37 GTexel / s
• Around 17% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1536
• Around 53% better floating-point performance: 3,315 gflops vs 2,169 gflops
• Around 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 13798 vs 11459
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 40.311 vs 31.318
• Around 17% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 795.334 vs 681.141
• Around 9% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.328 vs 3.062
• Around 95% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 64.205 vs 32.922
• 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 181.508 vs 67.311
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3705 vs 3680
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3705 vs 3680

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000

• Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 200 Watt
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
• Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 5000 MHz
• Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3998 vs 2806
• Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 433 vs 372
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6288 vs 4396
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6288 vs 4396

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K5000

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2806 3998
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	372 433
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	13798 11459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	40.311 31.318
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	795.334 681.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.328 3.062
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	64.205 32.922
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	181.508 67.311
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4396 6288
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3705 3680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4396 6288
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3705 3680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 3352

Compare specifications (specs)