Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and GeForce 6800 XE - video card comparison
Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
GeForce 6800 XE
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GK104
NV40
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
August 2012
September 2005
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
706 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,169 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
-
Power consumption (TDP)
122 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
90.37
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5400 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
172.8 GB/s
8.512 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
3.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A