NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT, 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

1% slightly better overall score

1632 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

33 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

24 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

24 FPS

35 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23863 points

31356 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25409 points

36756 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

797 MHz

1074 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1226 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 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

37% slightly higher pixel rate

39.23 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

216.5 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

137.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.20 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

4.39 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2880

60% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

114% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

231st of 586

232nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

2019 March

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 Radeon RX 560 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 560 XT GPU is faster than the Quadro K6000 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 560 XT 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 Radeon RX 560 XT 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 XT 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 Radeon RX 560 XT over the Quadro K6000.