NVIDIA Quadro 5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5000 and NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 5000

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 513 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
150.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1958 vs 13
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 391 vs 188

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 February 2011 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	513 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1958 vs 13
PassMark - G2D Mark	391 vs 188

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1958

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

391

188

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 5000	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1958	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	391	188
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)

	NVIDIA Quadro 5000	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF100	MCP67M
Launch date	23 February 2011	1 February 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499
Place in performance rating	970	972
Price now	$268
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	12.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	513 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	352
Texture fill rate	22.57 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	152 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
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