NVIDIA Quadro M5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5000 and AMD Radeon HD 6650A 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, 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 M5000

AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 44% higher core clock speed: 861 MHz vs 600 MHz
9.2x more texture fill rate: 132.9 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
7.4x better floating-point performance: 4,252 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
3.7x more memory clock speed: 6612 MHz vs 1800 MHz
11.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9369 vs 836
Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 659 vs 418

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 June 2015 vs 19 April 2011
Core clock speed	861 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9369 vs 836
PassMark - G2D Mark	659 vs 418

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650A

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6650A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9369

836

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

659

418

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M5000	AMD Radeon HD 6650A
PassMark - G3D Mark	9369	836
PassMark - G2D Mark	659	418
Geekbench - OpenCL	29514
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	99.169
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1183.119
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	53.364
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	498.551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12524
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3677
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12524
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3677
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3324

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M5000	AMD Radeon HD 6650A
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM204	Onega
Launch date	29 June 2015	19 April 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,856.99
Place in performance rating	351	352
Price now	$1,498
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	7.47
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	861 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	480
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s	14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DVI-I DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo, 1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	267 mm
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin
Width	2" (5.1 cm)
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Shader Model	5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	256 Bit	DDR3
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management