Radeon 780M vs Quadro K6000 SDI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated302
Place by popularitynot in top-10049
Power efficiencyno data83.69
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK110Phoenix
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$8,599 no data

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 cores2880768
Core clock speed902 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2700 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)239 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate216.5129.6
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs24048
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width3-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount12 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1502 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2013 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 239 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 9 years, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 1493.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K6000 SDI and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K6000 SDI is a workstation card while Radeon 780M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K6000 SDI
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