NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1800MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

10720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +53663%

38.71 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 580

0.072 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

VS

Quadro FX 580

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Apr 2009

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Quadro FX

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

32

336

TMUs

16

112

ROPs

8

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

72.00 GFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G96C

-

GPU Variant

G96-875-C1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

40W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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