NVIDIA Quadro 6000
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 is a workstation graphics card released on December 10, 2010, built on the Fermi architecture. It has 6 GB of GDDR5 memory, a boost clock of 574 MHz and a 204 W board power rating. It scores 2,702 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 2.0.
Depth: 33 recorded fields, 1 feature, 4 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 scores 2,702 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 71.2% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #810), measured across 267 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 457.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 averages DirectX 9 68 fps, DirectX 10 14 fps, DirectX 11 29 fps and GPU Compute 1,035 ops/s, across 267 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 6 GB of memory, a core clock of 574 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2010-10-19. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 is based on the Fermi architecture and uses the GF100 graphics processor.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 runs at a base clock of 574 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 is equipped with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 has a board power rating of 204 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 was released on December 10, 2010.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 1.1 and CUDA compute capability 2.0.
Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro 6000.
Features
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 2.0Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 supports CUDA (Compute capability 2.0) under Compute and AI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 have?
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 has 6 GB of GDDR5 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 has a board power rating of 204 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro 6000?
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 scores 2,702 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 71.2% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #810.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro 6000?
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 has CUDA compute capability 2.0.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 use?
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 released?
The NVIDIA Quadro 6000 was released on December 10, 2010.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
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- Architecture: Fermi (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GF100 -> Fermi. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
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