Quadro K5000 vs Radeon HD 7850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro K5000 and Radeon HD 7850, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro K5000 stacks up against Radeon HD 7850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro K5000 Radeon HD 7850
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 225 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7850 has 84% more power consumption, than Quadro K5000.
  • Quadro K5000 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon HD 7850 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro K5000 has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 7850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro K5000 is build with Kepler architecture, and Radeon HD 7850 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Quadro K5000 and Radeon HD 7850 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Quadro K5000 is 57 mm longer, than Radeon HD 7850.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro K5000 is 4200 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 20−22 18−20
ultra / 1080p 12−14 10−12
QHD / 1440p 6−7 5−6
4K / 2160p 5−6 4−5
low / 720p 35−40 35−40
medium / 1080p 24−27 24−27
The average gaming FPS of Quadro K5000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 5% more, than Radeon HD 7850.

Full Specs

  Quadro K5000 Radeon HD 7850
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Code name GK104 Pitcairn
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 17 August 2012 5 March 2012
Pipelines 1536 1024
Core clock speed 706 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million 2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 90.37 55.04
Floating-point performance 2,169 gflops 1,761 gflops
Length 267 mm 210 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth 172.8 GB/s 153.6 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 3.0
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 111 Mh/s 249 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 2.2 Mh/s 12.5 Mh/s
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