Quadro K6000 SDI vs Radeon HD 7770

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking599not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.33no data
Power efficiency4.91no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameCape VerdeGK110
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date15 February 2012 (12 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 $8,599

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 cores6402880
Core clock speed1000 MHz902 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt239 Watt
Texture fill rate40.00216.5
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPS5.196 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs40240

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
Length210 mm267 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 amount2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s288.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 February 2012 23 July 2013
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 239 Watt

HD 7770 has 198.8% lower power consumption.

K6000 SDI, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7770 and Quadro K6000 SDI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7770 is a desktop card while Quadro K6000 SDI is a workstation one.


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