NVIDIA Quadro 5000M vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5000M and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 16.2 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 35% better floating-point performance: 518.4 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • 3.5x more maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 512 MB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2060 vs 628
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 426 vs 397
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 July 2010 vs 12 December 2007
Texture fill rate 16.2 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size 1792 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2060 vs 628
PassMark - G2D Mark 426 vs 397

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

  • Around 48% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 405 MHz
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 405 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5000M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2060
628
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
426
397
Name NVIDIA Quadro 5000M ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 2060 628
PassMark - G2D Mark 426 397
Geekbench - OpenCL 23008
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5249
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7205
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7205

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 5000M ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF100 R600
Launch date 27 July 2010 12 December 2007
Place in performance rating 414 376
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 405 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 320 320
Texture fill rate 16.2 GTexel / s 9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 200 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1792 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB / s 118.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 2400 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
ECC (Error Correcting Code)