Quadro K6000 vs M6000

Place in performance ranking	169	244
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	5.77	11.17
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GM200	GK110B
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	21 March 2015 (9 years ago)	23 July 2013 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,199.99	$5,265
Current price	$1792 (0.4x MSRP)	$429 (0.1x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro K6000 has 94% better value for money than Quadro M6000.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	2880
Core clock speed	988 MHz	797 MHz
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	902 MHz
Number of transistors	8,000 million	7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	213.9	216.5
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	5,196 gflops

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	12 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB/s	288.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	+
CUDA	5.2	3.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. 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
+46.3%

Quadro K6000 20.81

M6000 outperforms K6000 by 46% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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
+46.3%

Quadro K6000 8059

M6000 outperforms K6000 by 46% in Passmark.

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
+63%

Quadro K6000 22920

M6000 outperforms K6000 by 63% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro M6000 46401
+83.1%

Quadro K6000 25339

M6000 outperforms K6000 by 83% in GeekBench 5 Vulkan.

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro M6000 32385
+84.3%

Quadro K6000 17571

M6000 outperforms K6000 by 84% in GeekBench 5 CUDA.

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
+40.2%

Quadro K6000 87

M6000 outperforms K6000 by 40% in Octane Render OctaneBench.