Quadro FX 580 vs RTX A6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 300W)
RTX A6000 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1800MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
10720 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
RTX A6000
+53663%
38710
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Oct 2020
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
84
32
Shading Units
10752
16
TMUs
336
8
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
300W
200 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GA102
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
