NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX SLI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 706 MHz vs 500 MHz
6.9x more pipelines: 1536 vs 224
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 150 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
6.8x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	25 January 2013 vs 15 July 2008
Core clock speed	706 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	1536 vs 224
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX SLI
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	G9x
Code name	GK104	NB9E-GTX
Launch date	25 January 2013	15 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,299
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	706 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1536	224
Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	3016 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PureVideo HD
SLI