NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 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: 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 K5000 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

3.1x more texture fill rate: 90.37 GTexel / s vs 28.8 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 384
3.1x better floating-point performance: 2,169 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 5016 MHz

Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s vs 28.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 5016 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Around 27% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 706 MHz
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 122 Watt

Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 706 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		11.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		342.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.945
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		14.549
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		22.128
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2550
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1938
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3926
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		43.2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		70.1

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Kepler
Code name	GK104	GK107
Launch date	7 August 2012	12 July 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,249
Place in performance rating	not rated	1525
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	706 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1536	384
Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s	28.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB / s	80.26 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	5016 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5