NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Price

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$ 677.99

$ 269.96

$ 408.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5888 points

256% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

145 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

103 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

66 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2096.93 points

491% significantly higher Blender score

354.70 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

117173 points

566% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17571 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105171 points

496% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73163 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

103585 points

334% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93415 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1620 MHz

103% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz

101% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

225 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s

114% significantly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

216.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS

114% significantly better floating point performance

5.20 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

6% slightly more shading units

2880

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

240

25% slightly more texture mapping units

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

85th of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Quadro RTX 5000 vs Quadro K6000 comparison

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 5000 graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Quadro RTX 5000 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 Quadro RTX 5000 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Quadro K6000 has a slightly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 at 230 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 5000 over the Quadro K6000.