NVIDIA started Quadro M6000 sales 21 March 2015 at a recommended price of $4,199.99 . This is a Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 12 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.61 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 317.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Quadro M6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	169
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	5.77
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name	GM200
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	21 March 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,199.99
Current price	$1792 (0.4x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Quadro M6000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro M6000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	988 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	8,000 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	213.9	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro M6000 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	1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro M6000: 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro M6000. 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

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Quadro M6000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	+
CUDA	5.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro M6000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 M6000 30.45

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro M6000 11792

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.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Quadro M6000 37354

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro M6000 46401

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro M6000 32385

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.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro M6000 122

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro M6000 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.

Relative performance

Overall Quadro M6000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

Radeon Pro Vega 56 104.76

Quadro M6000 24 GB 100.66

Radeon Pro 5700 100.46

Quadro M6000 100

Quadro P4000 98.82

Radeon Pro SSG 93.04

Tesla T4 92.51

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro M6000 is Radeon Pro 5700, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.