NVIDIA Quadro K600 vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K600 1 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M2000

Price

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$ 82.77

$ 42.23 significantly less expensive

$ 125.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

65 points

974 points

1398% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

21 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

14 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

14 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

12 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.85 points

135.49 points

878% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

1356 points

13100 points

866% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1572 points

14953 points

851% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1753 points

15367 points

776% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1810 points

14584 points

705% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1928 points

14502 points

652% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

876 MHz

1180 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.51 GB/s

105.8 GB/s

271% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

41 W

82% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.50 Gigapixels/s

37.22 Gigapixels/s

962% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

14.02 Gigatexels/s

55.82 Gigatexels/s

298% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

768

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% significantly 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

535th of 586

266th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March

2016 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro K600 vs Quadro M2000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro M2000 beats the Quadro K600 in gaming performance.

The Quadro M2000 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M2000 has significantly more memory with 4 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 M2000 at 75 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro M2000 over the Quadro K600.