NVIDIA Quadro 6000 vs AMD FirePro D500

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Combined performance score

FirePro D500
10.33
+48%

FirePro D500 outperforms Quadro 6000 by 48% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking400519
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money2.380.29
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameTahitiGF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years old)10 December 2010 (13 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$4,399
Current price$475 $1730 (0.4x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro D500 has 721% 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 cores1536448
Core clock speed725 MHz574 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt204 Watt
Texture fill rate69.6032.14
Floating-point performance2,227 gflops1,027.7 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length279 mm248 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed5080 MHz2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s143.4 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDAno data2.0

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 10.33 6.98
Recency 18 January 2014 10 December 2010
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 204 Watt

The FirePro D500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro 6000 in performance tests.


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