Quadro K6000 SDI: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro K6000 SDI sales 23 July 2013 at a recommended price of $8,599 . 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 triple-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 239 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro K6000 SDI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK110 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 23 July 2013 (11 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $8,599 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro K6000 SDI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro K6000 SDI'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 | 902 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| 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) | 239 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 SDI 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 | 3-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro K6000 SDI: 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 SDI. 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 SDI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 3.5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro K6000 SDI is FirePro W9100.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro K6000 SDI according to our statistics.
