AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) and NVIDIA Quadro K6000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 58% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 797 MHz
Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 1340 MHz vs 902 MHz
891.3x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 216.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 6008 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 23 July 2013
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 797 MHz
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz vs 902 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 216.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 6008 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Around 25% higher pipelines: 2880 vs 2304
838.1x better floating-point performance: 5,196 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB

Pipelines	2880 vs 2304
Floating-point performance	5,196 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Name	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)	NVIDIA Quadro K6000
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3510
PassMark - G3D Mark		8047
PassMark - G2D Mark		537
Geekbench - OpenCL		24016
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		67.178
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1816.61
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		7.435
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		88.889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		355.166
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12657
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12657
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)	NVIDIA Quadro K6000
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler
Code name	Polaris 20	GK110B
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	23 July 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$301.69	$5,265
Place in performance rating	374	372
Price now	$169.99	$833.98
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	62.57	11.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz	902 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	797 MHz
Floating-point performance	6.2 TFLOPs	5,196 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2880
Pixel fill rate	42.88 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s	216.5 GTexel / s
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	7,080 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	288.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	6008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready