NVIDIA Quadro K6000 SDI vs NVIDIA Tesla K20c
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 SDI and 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro K6000 SDI 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 5GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 208.0GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Tesla K20c 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 239W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K6000 SDI
+47%
5.196 TFLOPS
Tesla K20c
3.524 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2013
Release Date
Nov 2012
Quadro
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
5GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
320bit
288.4GB/s
Bandwidth
208.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
2880
Shading Units
2496
240
TMUs
208
48
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
54.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.71 GPixel/s
216.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
146.8 GTexel/s
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-
-
5.196 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.524 TFLOPS
1.732 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1175 GFLOPS
Board Design
239W
TDP
225W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
3x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
3x SDI
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK110
GPU Name
GK110
-
GPU Variant
GK110-885-KA-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.1
3.5
CUDA
3.5
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
