Quadro K600: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Quadro K600 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.64% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro K600 sales 1 March 2013 at a recommended price of $199. This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.89 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.51 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 160 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 41 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro K600: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking963
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.11
Power efficiency3.22of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK107
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date1 March 2013 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Quadro K600's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K600's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed876 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors1,270 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)41 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate14.02of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.3364 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs16of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache16 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K600 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length160 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K600: 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 typeDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed891 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth28.51 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K600. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Quadro K600, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan+
CUDA3.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro K600. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Quadro K600
1.64

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 K600 Samples: 1192 723

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 K600 1834

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

Quadro K600 1932

GeekBench 5 CUDA

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 CUDA API by NVIDIA.

Quadro K600 1356

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 K600 5

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro K600 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.

Closest competitors

Quadro K600's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro K420 100.61
Quadro K600 100
NVS 510 93.9
GRID K1 89.63

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K600 is FireStream 9170, which is slower by 11% and lower by 29 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro K600:

FirePro V4900 138.41
FirePro W2100 124.39
Quadro K600 100
FirePro 2270 19.51

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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