NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 269.96

$ 1280.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

747% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

296 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

217 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

1541% significantly higher Blender score

354.70 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

238123 points

1255% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

1061% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

512% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

714% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

607% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

75% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

87% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

100% significantly more memory

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

Identical

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

224% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

225 W

55% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

250% significantly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

156% significantly higher texture rate

216.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

584% significantly better floating point performance

5.20 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

264% significantly more shading units

2880

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

36% slightly more texture mapping units

240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th 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

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 3090 vs Quadro K6000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the Quadro K6000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 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 RTX 3090 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 GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K6000 has a significantly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the Quadro K6000.