RTX A6000 vs Quadro GP100
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 16GB VRAM Quadro GP100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A6000 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1800MHz vs 1442MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 732.2GB/s)
7168 additional rendering cores
Quadro GP100 's Advantages
Lower TDP (235W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A6000
+274%
38710
Quadro GP100
10340
3DMark Time Spy
RTX A6000
+121%
17742
Quadro GP100
7998
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX A6000
+128%
9324
Quadro GP100
4076
OctaneBench
RTX A6000
+150%
600
Quadro GP100
240
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Oct 2016
Quadro Ampere
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1304 MHz
1800 MHz
Boost Clock
1442 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
715 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
768.0GB/s
Bandwidth
732.2GB/s
Render Config
84
SM Count
56
10752
Shading Units
3584
336
TMUs
224
112
ROPs
96
336
Tensor Cores
-
84
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
24 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
201.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.4 GPixel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
323.0 GTexel/s
38.71 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
20.67 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.34 TFLOPS
604.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.168 TFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
235W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
GP100
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
16 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
15.3 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
610 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
6.0
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
