Quadro P520 vs P6000

Place in performance ranking	107	573
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	18.70	1.08
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GP102	GP108
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	1 October 2016 (7 years ago)	27 May 2019 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999	no data
Current price	$989 (0.2x MSRP)	$1670

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro P6000 has 1631% better value for money than Quadro P520.

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	3840	384
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	1303 MHz
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz	1493 MHz
Number of transistors	11,800 million	1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	18 Watt
Texture fill rate	394.8	35.83
Floating-point performance	12,634 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro P6000 and Quadro P520 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2" (5.1 cm)	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	None
SLI options	+	no data

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	384 Bit	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 432 GB/s	48.06 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	DVI-D DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo	No outputs
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync II	no data

Technologies

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

ECC (Error Correcting Code)	+	no data
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
High-Performance Video I/O6	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	6.1	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 P6000 38.93
+617%

Quadro P520 5.43

P6000 outperforms P520 by 617% 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 P6000 15077
+617%

Quadro P520 2104

P6000 outperforms P520 by 617% 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 P6000 60145
+714%

Quadro P520 7391

P6000 outperforms P520 by 714% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Quadro P6000 77095
+857%

Quadro P520 8059

P6000 outperforms P520 by 857% in GeekBench 5 Vulkan.

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro P6000 47462
+534%

Quadro P520 7481

P6000 outperforms P520 by 534% in GeekBench 5 CUDA.

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	150−160 +614%	21 −614%
4K	140−150 +600%	20 −600%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	38.93	5.43
Recency	1 October 2016	27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	18 Watt