GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a vs Quadro P6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking105not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.86no data
Power efficiency11.33no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGP102C78
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 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.

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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 cores384016
Core clock speed1506 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHzno data
Number of transistors11,800 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate394.84.000
Floating-point processing power12.63 TFLOPS0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs964
TMUs2408

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 x16PCI
Length267 mmno data
Width2" (5.1 cm)IGP
Supplementary power connectors1 x 8-pinno 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 type384 BitSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount24 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1127 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidthUp to 432 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Number of simultaneous displays4no data
Multi-display synchronizationQuadro Sync IIno 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.

DirectX1211.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


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

Quadro P6000 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

8100 + nForce 720a, on the other hand, has 525% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P6000 and GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P6000 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a is a desktop one.


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