NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

4.8x more texture fill rate: 90.37 GTexel / s vs 18.79 GTexel / s
10.7x more pipelines: 1536 vs 144
4.8x better floating-point performance: 2,169 gflops vs 451.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
3.9x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s vs 18.79 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 144
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops vs 451.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 783 MHz vs 706 MHz
Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 106 Watt vs 122 Watt

Core clock speed	783 MHz vs 706 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GK104	GF116
Launch date	7 August 2012	11 July 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,249
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	706 MHz	783 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops	451.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1536	144
Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s	18.79 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	106 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	1,170 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	210 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	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3