NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 46% higher core clock speed: 988 MHz vs 675 MHz
10.6x more texture fill rate: 285.2 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 3072 vs 640
7.9x better floating-point performance: 6,844 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
12x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 2 GB
Around 65% higher memory clock speed: 6612 MHz vs 4000 MHz
8.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11915 vs 1373
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 719 vs 566

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 March 2016 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	988 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	285.2 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3072 vs 640
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11915 vs 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	719 vs 566

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

6.3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11915

1373

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

719

566

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	11915	1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	719	566
Geekbench - OpenCL	40088
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13107
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13107
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM200	Heathrow
Launch date	5 March 2016	24 April 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,999
Place in performance rating	242	237
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz
Core clock speed	988 MHz	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	3072	640
Texture fill rate	285.2 GTexel / s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	8,000 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	317.4 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6612 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0