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NVIDIA Quadro M6000 vs NVIDIA Tesla K20c

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 and 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1114MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 5GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 208.0GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Tesla K20c 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Quadro M6000 +94%
6.844 TFLOPS
Tesla K20c
3.524 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Mar 2015
Release Date
Nov 2012
Quadro
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

988 MHz
Base Clock
-
1114 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
5GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
320bit
317.4GB/s
Bandwidth
208.0GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
-
-
3072
Shading Units
2496
192
TMUs
208
96
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
3 MB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

106.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.71 GPixel/s
213.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
146.8 GTexel/s
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-
-
6.844 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.524 TFLOPS
213.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1175 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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200
GPU Name
GK110
-
GPU Variant
GK110-885-KA-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
561 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
3.5
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
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