GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a vs Quadro P6000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	108	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.89	no data
Power efficiency	11.06	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GP102	C78
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	1 October 2016 (8 years ago)	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	3840	16
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	11,800 million	210 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	40 Watt
Texture fill rate	394.8	4.000
Floating-point processing power	12.63 TFLOPS	0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	4
TMUs	240	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2" (5.1 cm)	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	no data
SLI options	+	-

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 type	384 Bit	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	384 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1127 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	Up to 432 GB/s	no data

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync II	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

ECC (Error Correcting Code)	+	no data
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
High-Performance Video I/O6	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	6.4	4.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	6.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 October 2016	17 April 2007
Chip lithography	16 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	40 Watt

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