PNY Quadro P6000 24GB GDDR5X workstation

The PNY Quadro P6000 is old, hot, and inefficient, but its 24GB of ECC VRAM and top-tier AI score keep it relevant for niche compute work. Grab it if you find it near EUR 913, skip it if you're paying EUR 1,683. Not a gaming card.

The P6000 hits 12.0 TFLOPS of FP32 and pushes 432 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which keeps it relevant for AI inference and compute-heavy workstation loads. Our AI score lands in the top tier, and the 24GB of VRAM is still a standout for large models. But the raster and compute scores sit around the 30th percentile, so don't expect it to keep up with modern cards in general workloads. The 250W TDP isn't crazy on paper, but the thermal ranking tells the real story: this card gets toasty under load.

Stacked against something like the ASUS PRIME RTX 5080 or Gigabyte AERO RTX 5080, the P6000 gets smoked in raster, RT, and efficiency. Those cards are newer, faster, and sip power by comparison. The MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti also outclasses it in gaming and general compute. But none of those offer 24GB of ECC memory at this price point, and that's the P6000's one real trick. If your workload needs ECC and lots of VRAM, this card still has a seat at the table.

Pricing is all over the place. You'll find it for EUR 913 from one seller and EUR 1,683 from another, which is a massive spread for the same card. At the low end, it's a decent deal if you need 24GB of ECC VRAM for AI work. At the high end, you're paying modern GPU money for Pascal-era performance. The USD listing at 885 is the most reasonable, but availability is thin.

The PNY Quadro P6000 is a workstation card from a different era, but it still packs a serious punch for specific tasks. You get 24GB of ECC GDDR5X memory and 3840 CUDA cores, which sounds great until you remember this thing launched back when Pascal was king. It's not a gaming card, and it's not trying to be.

Our database puts its AI chops at the 91st percentile, which is genuinely impressive for a card this old. But the thermal score is a rough 7th percentile, and efficiency isn't much better. This is a card that drinks power and runs hot while doing it.

Skip this if you need modern gaming performance, ray tracing, or power efficiency. The RT and raster scores are disappointing, and the thermals are a real letdown. If you're building a new workstation with a modern CPU, you'll get more out of an RTX 5080 or even a 5070 Ti for similar money.

Buy this if you're running AI inference or memory-hungry compute tasks and you find it at the low end of the price range. It's not for gamers, it's not for people who care about thermals, and it's definitely not for anyone who wants modern features. But for a specific niche, it's still a workhorse.