NVIDIA Quadro K600 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K600 1 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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$ 82.77

$ 187.19 significantly less expensive

$ 269.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

65 points

1650 points

2438% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

37 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

23 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

24 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

20 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.85 points

354.70 points

2461% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

1356 points

17571 points

1195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1060 points

11048 points

942% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1572 points

17636 points

1021% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1753 points

22673 points

1193% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

1284 points

7932 points

517% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1810 points

23863 points

1218% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1928 points

25409 points

1217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

876 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

12 GiB

1100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.51 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

911% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

41 W

448% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.50 Gigapixels/s

54.12 Gigapixels/s

1444% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

14.02 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

1444% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

2880

1399% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

1399% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

529th of 586

230th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro K600 vs Quadro K6000 benchmarks

For gaming, the Quadro K6000 graphics card is better than the Quadro K600 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro K600 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 1 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 Quadro K600 has a significantly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 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 K6000 is better than the Quadro K600.