Quadro 6000 SDI: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro 6000 SDI sales 25 July 2011 at a recommended price of $11,499. This is a Fermi architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 143.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a quad-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 248 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 231 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro 6000 SDI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF100 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 25 July 2011 (15 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $11,499 | of 34,999 (B200 SXM6) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro 6000 SDI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro 6000 SDI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 448 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 574 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 3,100 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 231 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 32.14 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.028 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 48 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 56 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L1 Cache | 896 KB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro 6000 SDI and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 248 mm | |
| Width | Quad-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro 6000 SDI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 747 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 143.4 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 6000 SDI. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Quadro 6000 SDI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 2.0 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro 6000 SDI is FireStream 9250.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro 6000 SDI according to our statistics.
