AMD Radeon R7 M270DX vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M270DX 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 R7 M270DX

NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 706 MHz

Launch date	11 June 2014 vs 17 August 2012
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 706 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 440 vs 233
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3987 vs 962

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	440 vs 233
PassMark - G3D Mark	3987 vs 962

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K5000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

233

440

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

962

3987

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M270DX	NVIDIA Quadro K5000
PassMark - G2D Mark	233	440
PassMark - G3D Mark	962	3987
Geekbench - OpenCL		11444
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 R7 M270DX	NVIDIA Quadro K5000
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Kepler
Code name	Topaz	GK104
Launch date	11 June 2014	17 August 2012
Place in performance rating	667	669
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,499
Price now		$1,950
Value for money (0-100)		2.47
Technical info
Boost clock speed	940 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	706 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Transistor count	3,100 million	3,540 million
Floating-point performance		2,169 gflops
Pipelines		1536
Texture fill rate		90.37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		122 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		172.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		5400 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5