NVIDIA Quadro M6000 vs NVIDIA GRID K520Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 and 4GB VRAM GRID K520Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Boost Clock1114MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID K520Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro M6000
+198%
6.844 TFLOPS
GRID K520Q
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jul 2014
Quadro
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
988 MHz
Base Clock
-
1114 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
317.4GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
3072
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
106.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
213.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
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-
-
6.844 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
213.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
225W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GK104
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-
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.2
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
