NVIDIA Quadro K6000
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 is a workstation graphics card released on July 23, 2013, built on the Kepler architecture. It has 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, a boost clock of 902 MHz and a 225 W board power rating. It scores 8,043 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 3.5.
Depth: 33 recorded fields, 1 feature, 5 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 K6000 scores 8,043 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 86.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #365), measured across 248 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 553.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 averages DirectX 9 121 fps, DirectX 10 40 fps, DirectX 11 67 fps, DirectX 12 30 fps and GPU Compute 3,415 ops/s, across 248 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 K6000 states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 12 GB of memory, a core clock of 901.5 MHz, DirectX 11.2 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2013-10-04. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 is based on the Kepler architecture and uses the GK110 graphics processor.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 runs at a base clock of 902 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 is equipped with 12 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 has a board power rating of 225 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 was released on July 23, 2013.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 3.5.
Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro K6000.
Features
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 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 3.5Support 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 K6000 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 supports CUDA (Compute capability 3.5) under Compute and AI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 have?
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 has 12 GB of GDDR5 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 has a board power rating of 225 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro K6000?
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 scores 8,043 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 86.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #365. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 30 fps.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro K6000?
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 has CUDA compute capability 3.5.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 use?
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 released?
The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 was released on July 23, 2013.
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.
1 filled value
- Architecture: Kepler (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GK110 -> Kepler. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
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