NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 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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$ 559.30

$ 269.96

$ 289.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

391% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

160 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

853% significantly higher Blender score

354.70 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points

752% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

665% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

340% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

437% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

376% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

88% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% 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

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

2% slightly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

205% significantly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

46% significantly higher texture rate

216.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

290% significantly better floating point performance

5.20 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

104% significantly more shading units

2880

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

240

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

230th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Quadro K6000 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 also has a significantly 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 K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the Quadro K6000.