NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Price

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$ 269.96

$ 199.96

$ 70.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

2374 points

43% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

48 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

36 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

24 FPS

32 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

28 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

354.70 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

330.93 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17571 points

24565 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17636 points

28016 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22673 points

33588 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23863 points

29387 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25409 points

32919 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

797 MHz

1050 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1038 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

36% slightly higher memory bandwidth

211.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

150 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

54.12 Gigapixels/s

66.43 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

216.5 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

132.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.20 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

4.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2880

40% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

87% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th of 586

186th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Quadro K6000 vs Quadro M5000 benchmarks

For gaming, the Quadro M5000 graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro M5000 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 Quadro M5000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro M5000 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 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 Quadro M5000 over the Quadro K6000.