NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000 NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro K6000 +7116%

5.196 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 580

0.072 TFLOPS

Quadro K6000

VS

Quadro FX 580

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Apr 2009

Quadro

Generation

Quadro FX

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

797 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

2880

Shading Units

32

240

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

216.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

72.00 GFLOPS

1.732 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

G96C

GK110-890-B1

GPU Variant

G96-875-C1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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