Quadro K6000 SDI vs GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking119not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.77no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLIGK110
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$8,599

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38402880
Core clock speed1506 MHz902 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHzno data
Number of transistors14400 Million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt239 Watt
Texture fill rateno data216.5
Floating-point processing powerno data5.196 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data3-slot
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data288.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA+3.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 23 July 2013
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 239 Watt

GTX 1070 SLI has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

K6000 SDI, on the other hand, has 25.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and Quadro K6000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 SLI is a desktop card while Quadro K6000 SDI is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
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