Tesla P40 vs Quadro M6000

Place in performance ranking	169	154
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.81	100.00
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GM200	GP102
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	21 March 2015 (9 years ago)	13 September 2016 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,199.99	$5,699
Current price	$1792 (0.4x MSRP)	$131 (0x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Tesla P40 has 1621% better value for money than Quadro M6000.

Detailed specifications

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	3840
Core clock speed	988 MHz	1303 MHz
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	1531 MHz
Number of transistors	8,000 million	11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	213.9	367.4
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	11,758 gflops

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).

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	8-pin EPS

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	7.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB/s	347.1 GB/s

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	+	1.3
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 30.47

Tesla P40 32.75
+7.5%

Tesla P40 outperforms Quadro M6000 by 7% 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

Tesla P40 12677
+7.5%

Tesla P40 outperforms Quadro M6000 by 8% in Passmark.