NVIDIA started Quadro K6000 sales 23 July 2013 at a recommended price of $5,265 . This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 12 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 225 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro K6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	261
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.21
Power efficiency	6.47	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GK110B
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	23 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,265	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro K6000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K6000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2880	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	797 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	902 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	7,080 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	216.5	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	5.196 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	48	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	240	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro K6000 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K6000: 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 type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro K6000. 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 Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro K6000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	+
CUDA	3.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro K6000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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 K6000 20.89

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 K6000 8059

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 K6000 24089

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Quadro K6000 25167

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Quadro K6000 17571

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 K6000 87

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro K6000 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 K6000's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.

Radeon Pro Duo 101.53

CMP 30HX 100.96

Radeon Pro W6400 100.29

Quadro K6000 100

Radeon Pro WX 7100 97.37

T1000 94.93

T1000 8 GB 94.26

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K6000 is Radeon Pro W6400, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.