NVIDIA Quadro P6000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA Quadro P6000 23 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 679.99

$ 541.95

$ 138.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6416 points

12174 points

89% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

289 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

141 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

75 FPS

206 FPS

132 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

114 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

782.92 points

5402.96 points

590% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64130 points

168368 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72621 points

158623 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1417 MHz

2190 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

2430 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

23.44 GiB

95% significantly more memory

12 GiB

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

432.8 GB/s

20% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

20% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

157.9 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

394.8 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.63 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

175% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

7168

86% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

7% slightly more texture mapping units

224

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

75th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Quadro P6000 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the Quadro P6000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 GeForce RTX 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro P6000 has significantly more memory with 23.44 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro P6000 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the Quadro P6000.