Quadro 6000 vs Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 6000 and Radeon HD 5850, 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 6000 stacks up against Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro 6000 Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 204 Watt 151 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro 6000 has 35% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro 6000 has 5 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 6000 is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5850 is 151 MHz higher, than Quadro 6000.
  • Quadro 6000 and Radeon HD 5850 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Quadro 6000 is 7 mm longer, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 6000 is 988 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 14−16 9−10
ultra / 1080p 8−9 5−6
QHD / 1440p 3−4 0−1
low / 720p 27−30 21−24
medium / 1080p 16−18 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 6000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 41% more, than Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  Quadro 6000 Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF100 Cypress
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 10 December 2010 30 September 2009
Pipelines 448 1440
Core clock speed 574 MHz 725 MHz
Transistor count 3,100 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 32.14 52.20
Floating-point performance 1,027.7 gflops 2,088.0 gflops
Length 248 mm 241 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2988 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 143.4 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 91 Mh/s
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