NVIDIA Quadro M6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

VS

NVIDIA Quadro M6000

NVIDIA Quadro K420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro K420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro M6000 +1936%

6.844 TFLOPS

Quadro K420

0.336 TFLOPS

Quadro M6000

VS

Quadro K420

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

Quadro

Generation

Quadro

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

891 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

317.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

-

3072

Shading Units

192

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

106.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.504 GPixel/s

213.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.02 GTexel/s

-

6.844 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.4 GFLOPS

213.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

14.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

41W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GK107

-

GPU Variant

GK107-301-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

118 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

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