NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

4.2x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 122 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 122 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 706 MHz vs 589 MHz
9.6x more texture fill rate: 90.37 GTexel / s vs 9.424 GTexel / s
16x more pipelines: 1536 vs 96
8.1x better floating-point performance: 2,169 gflops vs 269.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
5.4x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	706 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s vs 9.424 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops vs 269.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro K5000
PassMark - G3D Mark		3992
PassMark - G2D Mark		432
Geekbench - OpenCL		11460
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)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro K5000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Kepler
Code name	GF119	GK104
Launch date	20 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	589 MHz	706 MHz
Floating-point performance	269.2 gflops	2,169 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	96	1536
Texture fill rate	9.424 GTexel / s	90.37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	122 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	172.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5