NVIDIA Quadro 6000: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro 6000 sales 10 December 2010 at a recommended price of $4,399 . 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 2.99 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 143.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot 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 204 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 6.98% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Quadro 6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking517
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.29
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGF100
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date10 December 2010 (13 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,399
Current price$1730 (0.4x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Quadro 6000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro 6000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores448of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed574 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors3,100 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)204 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate32.14of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance1,027.7 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro 6000 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length248 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro 6000: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed2988 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth143.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 6000. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by Quadro 6000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA2.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro 6000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro 6000 2705

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

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Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro 6000 40

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro 6000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Quadro 6000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro 6000 is FirePro S7150, which is faster by 1% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

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Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with Quadro 6000 according to our statistics.

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