NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro M6000 24 GB sales 5 March 2016 at a recommended price of $4,999. This is Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 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

Of Quadro M6000 24 GB's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	101
Value for money	14.53
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name	GM200
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	5 March 2016 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,999
Price now	$1040 (0.2x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Quadro M6000 24 GB's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro M6000 24 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	988 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	8,000 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	250 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	285.2	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Quadro M6000 24 GB's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (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 24 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti)
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro M6000 24 GB. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Quadro M6000 24 GB, 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

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Quadro M6000 24 GB. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Quadro M6000 24 GB 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 perfomance

Overall Quadro M6000 24 GB performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

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