NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550, 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

Identical

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

41 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

24 FPS

27 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

354.70 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

233.88 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17636 points

36084 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23863 points

33865 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25409 points

32349 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

797 MHz

1065 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1320 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

499% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

25 W

800% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

54.12 Gigapixels/s

156% significantly higher pixel rate

21.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

216.5 Gigatexels/s

412% significantly higher texture rate

42.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.20 TFLOPS

92% significantly better floating point performance

2.70 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2880

181% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

650% 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

230th of 586

231st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 MX550 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce MX550 beats the Quadro K6000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX550 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. In addition, the GeForce MX550 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.

In addition, the GeForce MX550 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce MX550 is faster than the Quadro K6000.