AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB 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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$ 1668.98

$ 269.96

$ 1399.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

29% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

20 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

354.70 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

283% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

11048 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

543% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7932 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

58% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

224 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

49% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

54.12 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

216.5 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

12% slightly better floating point performance

5.20 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2880

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

240

66% 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

199th of 586

230th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 480 vs Quadro K6000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 480 GPU is faster than the Quadro K6000 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 480 has a significantly 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 480 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 480 is faster than the Quadro K6000.