NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 6GB VRAM Quadro 6000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 143.4GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 231W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
+115%
2.218 TFLOPS
Quadro 6000 SDI
1.028 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Jul 2011
GRID
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
747 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
143.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
14
1536
Shading Units
448
96
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.07 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.14 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1028 GFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
513.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
231W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
2x SDI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GF100
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
