Tesla K10 vs Quadro M6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking182not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.32no data
Power efficiency8.37no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGM200GK104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date21 March 2015 (9 years ago)1 May 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,199.99 $5,099

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 cores30721536
Core clock speed988 MHz745 MHz
Boost clock speed1114 MHzno data
Number of transistors8,000 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate213.995.36
Floating-point processing power6.844 TFLOPS2.289 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs192128

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
Length267 mm272 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1653 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth317.4 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, 4x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA5.23.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2015 1 May 2012
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 225 Watt

Quadro M6000 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Tesla K10, on the other hand, has 11.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M6000 and Tesla K10. We've got no test results to judge.


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