NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs ATI Radeon X800 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K6000 and ATI Radeon X800 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K6000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 475 MHz
  • 57x more texture fill rate: 216.5 GTexel / s vs 3.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 96x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 128 MB
  • 6.1x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 986 MHz
  • 96x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8060 vs 84
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 535 vs 423
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 July 2013 vs 1 November 2005
Core clock speed 797 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate 216.5 GTexel / s vs 3.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 986 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8060 vs 84
PassMark - G2D Mark 535 vs 423

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GT

  • 5.6x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 225 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K6000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8060
84
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
535
423
Name NVIDIA Quadro K6000 ATI Radeon X800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 8060 84
PassMark - G2D Mark 535 423
Geekbench - OpenCL 24089
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)

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 ATI Radeon X800 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler R400
Code name GK110B R430
Launch date 23 July 2013 1 November 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $5,265
Place in performance rating 374 376
Price now $833.98
Type Workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 11.34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 902 MHz
Core clock speed 797 MHz 475 MHz
Floating-point performance 5,196 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 2880
Texture fill rate 216.5 GTexel / s 3.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 7,080 million 160 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0b
OpenGL 4.6 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 288.4 GB / s 31.55 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 986 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR