NVIDIA Quadro P6000: specs and benchmarks

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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 9.02 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 432 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot 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.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 40.11% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Quadro P6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking80
Value for money19.52
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGP102
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date1 October 2016 (6 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,999
Current price$989 (0.2x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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 cores3840of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1506 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1645 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors11,800 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology16 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate394.8of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance12,634 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2" (5.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors1 x 8-pin
SLI options+

Memory

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 type384 Bit
Maximum RAM amount24 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed9016 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidthUp to 432 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsDVI-D DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo
Number of simultaneous displays4
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Sync II

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 support

APIs supported by Quadro P6000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.5of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan+
CUDA6.1

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 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 P6000 40.11

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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 P6000 15618

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 P6000 57158

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.

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro P6000 77095

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.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro P6000 47462

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro P6000 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 P6000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro P6000 is Radeon Pro Vega II, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

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