Quadro K6000 SDI vs FirePro D700

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking370not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.55no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameTahitiGK110
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$8,599

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20482880
Core clock speed850 MHz902 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt239 Watt
Texture fill rate108.8216.5
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS5.196 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs128240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mm267 mm
Width2-slot3-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1370 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth263.0 GB/s288.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 January 2014 23 July 2013
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 239 Watt

FirePro D700 has an age advantage of 5 months.

K6000 SDI, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 14.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro D700 and Quadro K6000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD FirePro D700
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