FirePro D300 vs Quadro 6000

Place in performance ranking	520	420
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.30	3.97
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	GF100	Pitcairn
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	10 December 2010 (13 years ago)	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,399	no data
Current price	$1730 (0.4x MSRP)	$260

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro D300 has 1223% better value for money than Quadro 6000.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	448	1280
Core clock speed	574 MHz	850 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	204 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	68.00
Floating-point performance	1,027.7 gflops	2,176 gflops

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	248 mm	242 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2988 MHz	5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth	143.4 GB/s	162.6 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

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

4x DisplayPort

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. 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.

Quadro 6000 6.99

FirePro D300 9.80
+40.2%

FirePro D300 outperforms Quadro 6000 by 40% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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%

Quadro 6000 9891

FirePro D300 19273
+94.9%

FirePro D300 outperforms Quadro 6000 by 95% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	6.99	9.80
Recency	10 December 2010	18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	204 Watt	150 Watt