
Quadro M6000 and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro M6000 vs GeForce GTX 970
Quadro M6000
12159
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Quadro M6000
GeForce GTX 970
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GM200
GM204
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1114 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
988 MHz
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1664
Floating-point performance
6,844 gflops
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
145 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
213.9
109 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
317.4 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
5.2
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0