NVIDIA Quadro M5000 vs NVIDIA Quadro M6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Quadro M5000 and 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro M5000 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1114MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 211.6GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro M5000
4.252 TFLOPS
Quadro M6000
+60%
6.844 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Quadro M5000
3675
Quadro M6000
+40%
5162
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Quadro M5000
1692
Quadro M6000
+42%
2415
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Mar 2015
Quadro
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
861 MHz
Base Clock
988 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
1114 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
211.6GB/s
Bandwidth
317.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
3072
128
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
66.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
106.9 GPixel/s
132.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
213.9 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.252 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.844 TFLOPS
132.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
213.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GM200
GM204-875-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
