NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (1800MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

7872 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro K6000

5.196 TFLOPS

RTX A6000 +644%

38.71 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

Quadro K6000

82

RTX A6000 +634%

602

Quadro K6000

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RTX A6000

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Oct 2020

Quadro

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

797 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1800 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

2880

Shading Units

10752

240

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

216.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

604.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

38.71 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.71 TFLOPS

1.732 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

604.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

GA102

GK110-890-B1

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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