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NVIDIA Quadro P6000

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 is a workstation graphics card released on October 1, 2016, built on the Pascal architecture. It has 3,840 shading units, 23.4 GB of GDDR5X memory and a 250 W board power rating. It scores 15,381 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12.1, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

PascalGP102-875-A1Workstation

7/10 key specs recorded · 44 facts

Depth: 36 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

3,840cores

Memory

23.4 GB

GDDR5X

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

250 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 scores 15,381 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #166), measured across 197 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 732.

PassMark G3D Mark

15,381

Rank #166
Faster than 94% of 2,658 GPUs
197 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 188 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 88.9% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 100 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 90.3% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 130 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 88.5% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 52 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 81.1% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 8,530 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 92.3% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 averages DirectX 9 188 fps, DirectX 10 100 fps, DirectX 11 130 fps, DirectX 12 52 fps and GPU Compute 8,530 ops/s, across 197 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 23.4 GB

Core clock 1417 MHz

Memory clock 1126 MHz

DirectX 12.1

OpenGL 4.5

Max TDP 250 W

First benchmarked 2016-10-28

Samples 197

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 23.4 GB of memory, a core clock of 1417 MHz, DirectX 12.1 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2016-10-28. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Pascal

Codename GP102-875-A1

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 is based on the Pascal architecture and uses the GP102-875-A1 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 3,840

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 has 3,840 shading units.

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro P6000. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro P6000.

Memory

Size 23.4 GB

Type GDDR5X

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 is equipped with 23.4 GB of GDDR5X memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 has a board power rating of 250 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 250 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched October 1, 2016

Launch price $5,999

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 was released on October 1, 2016 and launched at a price of $5,999.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 15,381

PassMark G2D 732

Rank #166

Samples 197

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 supports DirectX 12.1, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 1.2 and CUDA compute capability 6.1.

DirectX 12.1 (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.3

OpenCL 1.2

CUDA compute capability 6.1

Features

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 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

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 6.1

Support 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 P6000 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 supports CUDA (Compute capability 6.1) under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1 and decode for AV1.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 6th Generation Encoder engines: 2NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 3rd Generation Decoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA Quadro P6000
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Supported4:4:4: Yes	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: No; 8K: Yes	Supported4:4:4: No
AV1	Not supported	Not supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA Quadro P6000: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (6th Generation, encoder engines: 2) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (3rd Generation, decoder engines: 1).

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 have?

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 has 23.4 GB of GDDR5X memory.

How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 has a board power rating of 250 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro P6000?

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 scores 15,381 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #166. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 52 fps.

Does the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 support AV1 encoding?

No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA Quadro P6000.

What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro P6000?

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 has CUDA compute capability 6.1.

What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 use?

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

When was the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 released and how much did it cost at launch?

The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 was released on October 1, 2016 and launched at a price of $5,999.

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: Pascal (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GP102 -> Pascal. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).

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