NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX A2000 12 GB and 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1200MHz vs 1114MHz)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 12 GB
+16%
7.987 TFLOPS
Quadro M6000
6.844 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX A2000 12 GB
+13%
5834
Quadro M6000
5162
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX A2000 12 GB
+11%
2681
Quadro M6000
2415
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Mar 2015
Quadro
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
562 MHz
Base Clock
988 MHz
1200 MHz
Boost Clock
1114 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
317.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
26
SM Count
-
3328
Shading Units
3072
104
TMUs
192
48
ROPs
96
104
Tensor Cores
-
26
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
106.9 GPixel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
213.9 GTexel/s
7.987 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.844 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
213.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
70W
TDP
250W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GM200
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
8 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
