During the GTC 2015 event, apart from the GTX Titan X (which carries a price tag of $999), NVIDIA also unveiled the successor to its professional lineup of graphics cards; the Quadro M6000. While it was already known that the M6000 possesses 12 GB of GDDR5 video memory, WCCFtech states that Quadro M6000 is also able to deliver 7.0 Teraflops of compute power, which is a feature that individuals will require when taking care of extremely taxing workloads.
The website states that the Quadro M6000 possesses 3072 CUDA cores, which is the total number of cores that are present on NVIDIA's GTX 690 Kepler graphics solution, with the difference being that the GTX 690 is a dual-GPU solution and has been processed on the company's inferior architecture, compared to the Quadro M6000, which belongs to the Maxwell architecture. The better manufacturing process will result in delivering 'one and a half' times the processing power compared to Kepler architecture.
Given below are the additional specifications of the Quadro M6000 graphics chip:
- GPU Core: GM200
- SMM/Compute Units: 24
- ROPs: 96
- TMUs: 192
- Computing power: 7 Teraflops
- Video memory: 12 GB GDDR5
The stock GPU clock of the M6000 is 988 MHz, along with a memory clock of 6.6 GHz. Furthermore, the product also features a 384 bit bus memory width and is able to deliver a memory bandwidth of 317.4 GB/s. The GPUs superior architecture also allows it to possess a lowered thermal design power metric, which is 225 watts. NVIDIA will include the following display connectivity options:
- One DVI port
- One HDMI port
- Three display ports
For added performance, NVIDIA will allow users to run four cards simultaneously in an SLI configuration, and although the company did not reveal the pricing details of its flagship product, the Quadro K6000, which is the company's previous flagship professional workstation GPU, carries a price tag of $3,825, according to the details present on Amazon and features 12 GB of video memory. NVIDIA will more or less be pricing the M6000 around the same range, but could price it higher thanks to its superior architecture.
