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NVIDIA Quadro M6000 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock1114MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Quadro M6000 +208%
6.844 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Mar 2015
Release Date
Aug 2015
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
1253 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
317.4GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
-
-
3072
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
96
96
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

106.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
213.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
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-
-
6.844 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
213.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
100W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI 4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GM200
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
398 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
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