NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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

1882 points

14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

49 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

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

33 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

354.70 points

697.32 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23863 points

40962 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25409 points

37410 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

797 MHz

832 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1537 MHz

70% 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

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

54.12 Gigapixels/s

10% slightly higher pixel rate

49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

216.5 Gigatexels/s

120% significantly higher texture rate

98.37 Gigatexels/s

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

274% significantly more texture mapping units

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

234th of 597

218th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

2022 March

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 RTX A500 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A500 Laptop beats the Quadro K6000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the RTX A500 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the RTX A500 Laptop 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop is better than the Quadro K6000.