Quadro P6000 vs Radeon R9 390 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated108
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data3.94
Power efficiencyno data10.89
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGrenadaGP102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date3 September 2015 (9 years ago)1 October 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 $5,999

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 cores25603840
Core clock speed1000 MHz1506 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1645 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate160.0394.8
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS12.63 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs160240

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Width3-slot2" (5.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pin1 x 8-pin
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 typeGDDR5384 Bit
Maximum RAM amount8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz1127 MHz
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/sUp to 432 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displaysno data4
Multi-display synchronizationno dataQuadro Sync II
HDMI+-

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 Prono data+
Mosaicno data+
High-Performance Video I/O6no data+
nView Desktop Managementno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12
Shader Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2015 1 October 2016
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 250 Watt

Quadro P6000 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 132% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390 X2 and Quadro P6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 390 X2 is a desktop card while Quadro P6000 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
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