Quadro K5000 vs Radeon R7 Carrizo

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro K5000 and Radeon R7 Carrizo, 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 R7 Carrizo, check out specs charts below.

Radeon R7 Carrizo is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon R7 Carrizo is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R7 Carrizo here:

Main Specs

  Quadro K5000 Radeon R7 Carrizo
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 12-35 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro K5000 has 916% more power consumption, than Radeon R7 Carrizo.
  • Quadro K5000 is used in Desktops, and Radeon R7 Carrizo - in Laptops.
  • Quadro K5000 is build with Kepler architecture, and Radeon R7 Carrizo - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • Quadro K5000 and Radeon R7 Carrizo are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 20−22 2−3
ultra / 1080p 12−14 0−1
QHD / 1440p 6−7 0−1
4K / 2160p 5−6
low / 720p 35−40 12−14
medium / 1080p 24−27 5−6
The average gaming FPS of Quadro K5000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 300% more, than Radeon R7 Carrizo.

Full Specs

  Quadro K5000 Radeon R7 Carrizo
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name GK104 Carrizo
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 17 August 2012 4 June 2015
Pipelines 1536 512
Core clock speed 706 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million 2410 Million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 90.37
Floating-point performance 2,169 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth 172.8 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 111 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 2.2 Mh/s
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