NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

2438 points

47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

49 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

39 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

24 FPS

31 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

32 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

354.70 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17571 points

30206 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17636 points

33671 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22673 points

36656 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23863 points

35111 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25409 points

33988 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

797 MHz

1506 MHz

88% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1709 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

139% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

80% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

120 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

54.12 Gigapixels/s

68.36 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

216.5 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.20 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

4.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2880

125% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

231st of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Quadro K6000 vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB GPU is faster than the Quadro K6000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB 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 GTX 1060 5GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB over the Quadro K6000.