NVIDIA Quadro 5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5000 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 513 MHz vs 500 MHz
5.6x more texture fill rate: 22.57 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
22x more pipelines: 352 vs 16
18.1x better floating-point performance: 722.3 gflops vs 40 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
5x more maximum memory size: 2560 MB vs 512 MB
Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
15.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1935 vs 122
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 386 vs 172

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 February 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	513 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	22.57 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	352 vs 16
Floating-point performance	722.3 gflops vs 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2560 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1935 vs 122
PassMark - G2D Mark	386 vs 172

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

7.6x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 152 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 152 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1935

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

386

172

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 5000	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	1935	122
PassMark - G2D Mark	386	172
Geekbench - OpenCL	7349
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 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF100	G96
Launch date	23 February 2011	3 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499
Place in performance rating	980	982
Price now	$268
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	12.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	513 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.3 gflops	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	352	16
Texture fill rate	22.57 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	152 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2560 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	120.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0