Quadro P4000 vs M6000

Place in performance ranking	169	172
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	5.78	25.20
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GM200	GP104
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	21 March 2015 (9 years ago)	6 February 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,199.99	$815
Current price	$1792 (0.4x MSRP)	$485 (0.6x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro P4000 has 336% 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	1792
Core clock speed	988 MHz	1202 MHz
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	1480 MHz
Number of transistors	8,000 million	7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	213.9	165.8
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	5,304 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	241 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 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	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	7604 MHz
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB/s	192 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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	4x DisplayPort
Display Port	no data	1.4

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus	no data	+
3D Stereo	no data	+
Mosaic	no data	+
nView Display Management	no data	+
Optimus	no data	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	+
CUDA	5.2	6.1

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 30.46
+1.2%

Quadro P4000 30.10

M6000 outperforms P4000 by 1% 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
+1.2%

Quadro P4000 11653

M6000 outperforms P4000 by 1% 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

Quadro P4000 38489
+3%

P4000 outperforms M6000 by 3% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro M6000 46401
+11.9%

Quadro P4000 41450

M6000 outperforms P4000 by 12% in GeekBench 5 Vulkan.

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro M6000 32385

Quadro P4000 38590
+19.2%

P4000 outperforms M6000 by 19% 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
+19.6%

Quadro P4000 102

M6000 outperforms P4000 by 20% in Octane Render OctaneBench.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

65−70

−4.6%

68
+4.6%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	30.46	30.10
Recency	21 March 2015	6 February 2017
Cost	$4199.99	$815
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	100 Watt