AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA Quadro 5000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA Quadro 5000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA Quadro 5000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 45% higher pipelines: 512 vs 352
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 23 February 2011
Pipelines	512 vs 352
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 5000

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Quadro 5000
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G3D Mark		1938
PassMark - G2D Mark		387
Geekbench - OpenCL		7339
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		16.451
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		511.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.925
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		17.065
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		46.591
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3104
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3104
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3316

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Quadro 5000
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Fermi
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GF100
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	23 February 2011
Place in performance rating	978	975
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,499
Price now		$268
Value for money (0-100)		12.71
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	352
Core clock speed		513 MHz
Floating-point performance		722.3 gflops
Texture fill rate		22.57 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		152 Watt
Transistor count		3,100 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		248 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2560 MB
Memory bandwidth		120.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		320 Bit
Memory clock speed		3000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5