Quadro K6000 and GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps - video card comparison

Quadro K6000

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

GK110B

GP104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

July 2013

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

902 MHz

1733 MHz

Core clock speed

797 MHz

1607 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,196 gflops

8,873 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

7,080 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2880

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

225 Watt

180 Watt

Texture fill rate

216.5

277.3

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

11008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

352.3 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

3.5

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131