NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 99.97 significantly less expensive

$ 269.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

1650 points

42% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

26 FPS

37 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

23 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

24 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

20 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

354.70 points

107% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

17571 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

11048 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

22673 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

7932 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

23863 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

25409 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

69% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

12 GiB

499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

157% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

200% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

54.12 Gigapixels/s

16% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

271% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

5.20 TFLOPS

179% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2880

350% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586

231st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Quadro K6000 comparison

For gaming, the Quadro K6000 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K6000 over the GeForce GTX 1050.