NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 and 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 Passive to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 260W)

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1620MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro K6000

5.196 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 8000 Passive +187%

14.93 TFLOPS

Quadro K6000

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Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Aug 2018

Quadro

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

797 MHz

Base Clock

1230 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

672.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

72

-

Compute Units

-

2880

Shading Units

4608

240

TMUs

288

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

576

-

RT Cores

72

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

155.5 GPixel/s

216.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

466.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.86 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.93 TFLOPS

1.732 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

466.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

TU102

GK110-890-B1

GPU Variant

TU102-875-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

260W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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