Quadro FX 580 vs RTX A2000 12 GB
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 12GB VRAM RTX A2000 12 GB 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 70W)
RTX A2000 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1200MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
3296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
RTX A2000 12 GB
+10993%
7987
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Nov 2021
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
562 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
26
32
Shading Units
3328
16
TMUs
104
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
104
-
RT Cores
26
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
70W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GA106
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
12 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
276 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
6.6
