Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro K6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)
Quadro K6000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock902MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
2848 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Quadro K6000
+7116%
5196
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jul 2013
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
797 MHz
-
Boost Clock
902 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2880
16
TMUs
240
8
ROPs
48
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.12 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
216.5 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.732 TFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GK110B
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
GK110-890-B1
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.5
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
