NVIDIA Quadro 6000
About GPU
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 GPU is a powerful professional-grade graphics card designed for demanding workloads and high-performance computing tasks. With a memory size of 6GB and GDDR5 memory type, this GPU is capable of handling large datasets and complex visualizations with ease. The memory clock speed of 747MHz ensures fast and responsive performance, while the 448 shading units and 768KB L2 cache further contribute to its impressive capabilities.
One of the standout features of the Quadro 6000 is its 1.028 TFLOPS theoretical performance, making it suitable for a wide range of intensive applications such as 3D rendering, computer-aided design, and scientific simulations. Whether you are working on complex visual effects for film and television, engineering simulations, or medical imaging, the Quadro 6000 delivers the performance and reliability required for professional workloads.
In terms of power efficiency, the Quadro 6000 has a TDP of 204W, ensuring that it can deliver high performance without consuming excessive amounts of power. This makes it a viable option for workstations with strict power requirements.
Overall, the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 GPU is a top-of-the-line choice for professionals in industries that demand high-quality graphics performance and computational power. Its robust specs and advanced features make it a valuable asset for professionals working with graphics-intensive applications and workflows.
Basic
Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Professional
Launch Date
December 2010
Model Name
Quadro 6000
Generation
Quadro
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Transistors
3,100 million
TMUs
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Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
56
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
Architecture
Fermi
Memory Specifications
Memory Size
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
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The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
384bit
Memory Clock
747MHz
Bandwidth
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Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
143.4 GB/s
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
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Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
16.07 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
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Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
32.14 GTexel/s
FP64 (double)
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An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
513.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
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An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
1.007
TFLOPS
Miscellaneous
SM Count
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Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
14
Shading Units
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The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
448
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768KB
TDP
204W
Vulkan Version
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Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
N/A
OpenCL Version
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (11_0)
CUDA
2.0
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Shader Model
5.1
ROPs
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The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
48
Suggested PSU
550W
Benchmarks
FP32 (float)
Score
1.007
TFLOPS
Compared to Other GPU
FP32 (float)
/ TFLOPS