NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K4000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 768 vs 128
  • 3.6x better floating-point performance: 1,244 gflops vs 345.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 171 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1536 MB
  • 3.5x more memory clock speed: 5616 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2721 vs 525
  • 3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 424 vs 109
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2013 vs 5 March 2007
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 128
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops vs 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 171 Watt
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 1536 MB
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2721 vs 525
PassMark - G2D Mark 424 vs 109

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3328 vs 3321
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3328 vs 3321

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2721
525
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
424
109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3321
3328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3321
3328
Name NVIDIA Quadro K4000 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
PassMark - G3D Mark 2721 525
PassMark - G2D Mark 424 109
Geekbench - OpenCL 6674
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 427.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 23.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 61.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3321 3328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3321 3328
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 817

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro K4000 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK106 G80
Launch date 1 March 2013 5 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $1,269 $2,999
Place in performance rating 866 1243
Price now $225.65 $179.99
Type Workstation Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 14.81 4.92

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 768 128
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 171 Watt
Transistor count 2,540 million 681 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 134.8 GB / s 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3