
Quadro 6000 and FirePro D300 - video card comparison
Quadro 6000
FirePro D300
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GF100
Pitcairn
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
December 2010
January 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Core clock speed
574 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,027.7 gflops
2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
204 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.14
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2988 MHz
5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
143.4 GB/s
162.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
4x DisplayPort
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
2.0
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131