GeForce GTX 970 and Quadro 6000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro 6000
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Quadro 6000
2790
GeForce GTX 970
Quadro 6000
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GM204
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
December 2010
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
574 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
1,027.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
448
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
204 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
32.14
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
143.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-