NVIDIA Quadro P6000 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P6000 and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro P6000

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P6000

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 1645 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Around 10% better floating-point performance: 12,634 gflops vs 2x 5,733 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 8 GB
7.2x more memory clock speed: 9016 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15451 vs 8681

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2016 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Floating-point performance	12,634 gflops vs 2x 5,733 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	15451 vs 8681

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

5.5x more texture fill rate: 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 394.8 GTexel / s
Around 47% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 3840
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 752 vs 725

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 394.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 3840
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	752 vs 725

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P6000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15451

8681

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

725

752

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P6000	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	15451	8681
PassMark - G2D Mark	725	752
Geekbench - OpenCL	63932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	194.277
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1916.09
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	31.471
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	545.751
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20035
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20035
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8770	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P6000	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 2.0
Code name	GP102	Vesuvius
Launch date	1 October 2016	29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999	$1,499
Place in performance rating	204	203
Price now	$4,403.52	$1,099.99
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	3.90	11.14
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz	1018 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz
Floating-point performance	12,634 gflops	2x 5,733 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	3840	2x 2816
Texture fill rate	394.8 GTexel / s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	11,800 million	6,200 million
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort, DVI-D DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync II
Number of simultaneous displays	4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	307 mm
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Width	2" (5.1 cm)
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	384 Bit	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth		640 GB/s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)