NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro P6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro P6000 23 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro P6000

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 679.99

$ 199.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

6416 points

157% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

126 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

108 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

75 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

83 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

782.92 points

113% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

47462 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

56151 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

78125 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

64130 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

72621 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1417 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1645 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

23.44 GiB

485% 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

432.8 GB/s

92% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

157.9 Gigapixels/s

102% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

394.8 Gigatexels/s

153% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

12.63 TFLOPS

153% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3840

87% significantly 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

75th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 980 vs Quadro P6000 benchmarks

For gaming, the Quadro P6000 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro P6000 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 Quadro P6000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro P6000 has significantly more memory with 23.44 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 significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the Quadro P6000 at 250 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro P6000 is better than the GeForce GTX 980.