Quadro P6000: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro P6000 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 38.66% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro P6000 sales 1 October 2016 at a recommended price of $5,999. This is a Pascal architecture desktop card based on 16 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 GB of 384-bit memory clocked at 1.13 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 432 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a 2-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1 x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro P6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 132 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 4.35 | |
| Power efficiency | 10.96 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP102 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 1 October 2016 (8 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $5,999 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Quadro P6000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro P6000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3840 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1506 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1645 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 11,800 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 16 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 394.8 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 12.63 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 96 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 240 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro P6000 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" (5.1 cm) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1 x 8-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro P6000: 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 | 384 Bit | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 24 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1127 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | Up to 432 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro P6000. 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 | |
| Number of simultaneous displays | 4 | |
| Multi-display synchronization | Quadro Sync II |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Quadro P6000. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| ECC (Error Correcting Code) | + | |
| 3D Vision Pro | + | |
| Mosaic | + | |
| High-Performance Video I/O6 | + | |
| nView Desktop Management | + |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro P6000, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro P6000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.
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.
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
GeekBench 5 CUDA
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 CUDA API by NVIDIA.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro P6000 is Radeon Pro W6600, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended processors
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