NVIDIA Quadro M6000 vs NVIDIA Tesla K8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 and 8GB VRAM Tesla K8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1114MHz vs 811MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Tesla K8 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro M6000
+174%
6.844 TFLOPS
Tesla K8
2.491 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Sep 2014
Quadro
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
988 MHz
Base Clock
693 MHz
1114 MHz
Boost Clock
811 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
317.4GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
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3072
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
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48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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Theoretical Performance
106.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.95 GPixel/s
213.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.8 GTexel/s
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6.844 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.491 TFLOPS
213.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.8 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
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GK104
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Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
294 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
