NVIDIA Quadro P6000 vs NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P6000 and NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q 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

NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P6000

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 722 MHz
5.7x more texture fill rate: 394.8 GTexel / s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
2.5x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1536
5.7x better floating-point performance: 12,634 gflops vs 2,218 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 8 GB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 9016 MHz vs 5012 MHz
4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15133 vs 3568
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 706 vs 556

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2016 vs 30 August 2015
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 722 MHz
Texture fill rate	394.8 GTexel / s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 1536
Floating-point performance	12,634 gflops vs 2,218 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz vs 5012 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	15133 vs 3568
PassMark - G2D Mark	706 vs 556

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P6000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15133

3568

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

706

556

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P6000	NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
PassMark - G3D Mark	15133	3568
PassMark - G2D Mark	706	556
Geekbench - OpenCL	60145
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P6000	NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GP102	GM204
Launch date	1 October 2016	30 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999
Place in performance rating	217	187
Price now	$4,403.52
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.90
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	722 MHz
Floating-point performance	12,634 gflops	2,218 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	3840	1536
Texture fill rate	394.8 GTexel / s	69.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	11,800 million	5,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort, DVI-D DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo	No outputs
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync II
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	None
Width	2" (5.1 cm)
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	384 Bit	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth		160.4 GB / s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management