GRID K200 vs Quadro 6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking550not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.15no data
Power efficiency2.37no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGF100GK104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 December 2010 (13 years ago)28 June 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,399 $235

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores4481536
Core clock speed574 MHz745 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)204 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate32.1495.36
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPS2.289 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs56128

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 GB256 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed747 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.4 GB/s160.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA2.03.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2010 28 June 2013
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 204 Watt 225 Watt

Quadro 6000 has a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 10.3% lower power consumption.

GRID K200, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 6000 and GRID K200. We've got no test results to judge.


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