NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI
About GPU
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI GPU is a powerhouse in the professional graphics card market, offering a range of features that make it a go-to choice for those in need of high-end performance. With a 6GB GDDR5 memory size and a memory clock of 747MHz, this GPU is capable of handling even the most demanding tasks with ease.
One of the key selling points of the Quadro 6000 SDI is its impressive 448 shading units, which allow for stunning visual performance and smooth rendering. The 768KB L2 cache further enhances the card's ability to handle complex scenes and datasets, making it a top choice for graphics professionals and content creators.
With a TDP of 231W, the Quadro 6000 SDI is undeniably powerful, providing a theoretical performance of 1.028 TFLOPS. This level of performance is unrivaled in the professional graphics card market, making the Quadro 6000 SDI a standout choice for those who demand the very best from their hardware.
Overall, the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI GPU is a top-of-the-line choice for professionals in need of high-end graphics performance. Whether you're working on complex visual effects, 3D modeling, or other graphics-intensive tasks, this GPU has the power and capabilities to handle it all with ease. If you're in the market for a professional-grade graphics card that offers uncompromising performance, the Quadro 6000 SDI is a top contender.
Basic
Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Professional
Launch Date
July 2011
Model Name
Quadro 6000 SDI
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
?
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
231W
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