NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 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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$ 399.00

$ 269.96

$ 129.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

48% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

354.70 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

11048 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7932 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

88% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

87% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS

5.20 TFLOPS

28% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2880

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

231st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs Quadro K6000 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB over the Quadro K6000.