NVIDIA Quadro M6000 Review: Maxwell Goes Workstation

Last year we tested both Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 and Photoshop, but we've dropped the latter from this comparison. No Photoshop benchmark we've seen puts enough stress on modern high-end workstation cards to show meaningful variation between them; the performance gap between the 2010-era Quadro 6000 and the 2014 Quadro K6000 was just over two seconds. AMD cards perform identically to NVIDIA cards in Photoshop, with no apparent difference between them.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014:

For Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 we used the latest version of the venerable Adobe Premiere Pro Benchmark (PPBM7). This test contains three components -- a PAL DVD conversion (meant as a storage test), an MPEG-2 DVD conversion, and an "Export to Blu-ray" test. These last two tests are both GPU accelerated and the modern version of the Mercury Playback Engine embedded in Premiere Pro can be configured to run in either OpenCL or CUDA mode. We ran both tests under their respective languages.