NVIDIA's Maxwell architecture has already torn up the gaming world thanks to cards like the GeForce GTX Titan X and the GeForce GTX 980. NVIDIA recently took time to bring that same Maxwell goodness over the workstation market as well and the result is the new Quadro M6000, NVIDIA's new highest-end workstation platform. Like the Titan X, the M6000 is based on the full-fat version of the Maxwell GPU, the G200. Also, like the GeForce GTX Titan X, the Quadro M6000 has 12GB of GDDR5, 3072 GPU cores, 192 texture units (TMUs), and 96 render outputs (ROPs).

Sometimes, however, paper specs don't really tell the whole story. Just as Maxwell delivered substantially better gaming performance than Kepler, NVIDIA has said that the M6000 will beat out the previous generation Quadro K6000 in a significant way in pro workstation applications as well as GPGPU or rendering and encoding applications that can be GPU-accelerated. Will those claims prove true?

That's what we're going to look at in-depth here...