NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition 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: Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 706 MHz
3569.8x more texture fill rate: 322.6 GTexel/s vs 90.37 GTexel / s
2.3x more pipelines: 3584 vs 1536
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 4 GB

Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 7 August 2012
Core clock speed	930 MHz vs 706 MHz
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s vs 90.37 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3584 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

Around 35% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 165 Watt
4.4x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt vs 165 Watt
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Kepler
Code name	GA100	GK104
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	7 August 2012
Place in performance rating	99	not rated
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,249
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	706 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3584	1536
Pixel fill rate	138.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s	90.37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	122 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	3,540 million
Floating-point performance		2,169 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	1x 6-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
OpenCL	3.0
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	933.1 GB/s	172.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	3072 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective	5400 MHz
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR5