NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA RTX A6000 NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and a Desktop platform GPU: 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2550MHz vs 1800MHz)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000

38.71 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +68%

65.28 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX A6000

5549

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +43%

7981

OctaneBench

RTX A6000

602

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +35%

816

RTX A6000

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RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Aug 2023

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Quadro Ada

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1155 MHz

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

100

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

12800

336

TMUs

400

112

ROPs

176

336

Tensor Cores

400

84

RT Cores

100

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

448.8 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1020 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

65.28 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

65.28 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1020 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

AD102

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GPU Variant

AD102

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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