NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 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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$ 879.85

$ 269.96

$ 609.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

51% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

12 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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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

354.70 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

11048 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7932 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

36% slightly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

43% significantly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

5.20 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2880

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

240

87% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 980 vs Quadro K6000 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly 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 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 980 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 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 GeForce GTX 980 over the Quadro K6000.