Quadro RTX 6000: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro RTX 6000 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 41.05% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro RTX 6000 sales 13 August 2018 at a recommended price of $6,299. This is a Turing architecture desktop card based on 12 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 260 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro RTX 6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 98 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 2.40 | |
| Power efficiency | 12.70 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2022) | |
| GPU code name | TU102 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 13 August 2018 (7 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $6,299 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Quadro RTX 6000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro RTX 6000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4608 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1440 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1770 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 18,600 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 260 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 509.8 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 16.31 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 96 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 288 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Tensor Cores | 576 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 72 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| L1 Cache | 4.5 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 6 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro RTX 6000 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-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro RTX 6000: 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 | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 24 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 672.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro RTX 6000. 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 | 4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Quadro RTX 6000, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | |
| CUDA | 7.5 | |
| DLSS | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro RTX 6000. 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 RTX 6000 is Radeon Pro W5700X, which is slower by 3% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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