Radeon R3 Graphics vs Quadro 6000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking553not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.15no data
Power efficiency2.38no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF100Beema
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date10 December 2010 (13 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores448128
Core clock speed574 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)204 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate32.144.800
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs484
TMUs568

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed747 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth143.4 GB/sno data

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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2010 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 204 Watt 15 Watt

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 4 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1260% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 6000 and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 6000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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