NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jul 2013
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
797 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
902 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
288.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
2880
TMUs
104
240
ROPs
56
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
54.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
216.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
5.196 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
1.732 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GK110B
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
GK110-890-B1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
7.08 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
561 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
225W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
3.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
2,809
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
1,292
OctaneBench
77
82
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.