NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI vs NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI and NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI

NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI

2.6x lower typical power consumption: 231 Watt vs 600 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	231 Watt vs 600 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

7.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 32.1 GTexel / s
2.3x more pipelines: 2x 512 vs 448
2.3x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,175.6 gflops vs 1,027.7 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 6 GB vs 6 GB

Texture fill rate	2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 32.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 512 vs 448
Floating-point performance	2x 1,175.6 gflops vs 1,027.7 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 6 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz vs 2988 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI	NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Fermi
Code name	GF100	GF100
Launch date	25 July 2011	25 July 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$11,499	$14,999
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	574 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,027.7 gflops	2x 1,175.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	448	2x 512
Texture fill rate	32.1 GTexel / s	2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	231 Watt	600 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI	4x DVI, 2x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm	522 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 6 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.4 GB / s	2x 144.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	2988 MHz	3000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5