NVIDIA started Quadro P6000 sales 1 October 2016 at a recommended price of $5,999 . This is a Pascal architecture desktop card based on 16 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 GB of 384-bit memory clocked at 1.13 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 432 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a 2-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1 x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro P6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	109
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.94
Power efficiency	10.91	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GP102
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	1 October 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Quadro P6000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro P6000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3840	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	11,800 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	394.8	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	12.63 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	96	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	240	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro P6000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2" (5.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin
SLI options	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro P6000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	384 Bit
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1127 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	Up to 432 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro P6000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync II

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Quadro P6000. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

ECC (Error Correcting Code)	+
3D Vision Pro	+
Mosaic	+
High-Performance Video I/O6	+
nView Desktop Management	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro P6000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131
CUDA	6.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro P6000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro P6000 39.74

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Quadro P6000 15307

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Quadro P6000 64195

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Quadro P6000 77200

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Quadro P6000 47462

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro P6000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Quadro P6000's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.

Radeon Pro W6800X 101.64

Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 101.64

Radeon Pro W6600 101.31

Quadro P6000 100

Quadro RTX 4000 99.92

Radeon Pro W5700 96.73

Radeon PRO W7500 93.51

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro P6000 is Radeon Pro W6600, which is faster by 1% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.