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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