GeForce 6600 vs Quadro K5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	434	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.61	no data
Power efficiency	6.06	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	GK104	NV43 A2
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	17 August 2012 (12 years ago)	12 August 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	1536	no data
Core clock speed	706 MHz	300 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	146 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	90.37	2.400
Floating-point processing power	2.169 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	128	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1350 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB/s	8 GB/s

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 Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	5.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	+	N/A
CUDA	3.0	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 August 2012	12 August 2004
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	110 nm

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