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 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 dual-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 204 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	555
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.16
Power efficiency	2.35	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF100
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	10 December 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,399	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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 cores	448	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	574 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	3,100 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	204 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	32.14	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	1.028 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	48	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	56	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	747 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	143.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro 6000, 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

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 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.

Quadro 6000 6.97

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

Quadro 6000 2685

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.

Quadro 6000 9850

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.

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.