NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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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$ 749.99

$ 269.96

$ 480.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

603% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

176 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

1259% significantly higher Blender score

354.70 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points

1074% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

930% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

456% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

626% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

524% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

80% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

12 GiB

20% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

384 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

163% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

225 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

203% significantly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

114% significantly higher texture rate

216.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

472% significantly better floating point performance

5.20 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

202% significantly more shading units

2880

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

13% slightly more texture mapping units

240

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

32nd of 586

231st 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

GDDR6X

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 3080 vs Quadro K6000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the Quadro K6000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K6000 has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K6000 has a slightly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the Quadro K6000.