NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA A30 PCIe NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2505MHz vs 1440MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 933.1GB/s)

14592 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +782%

91.06 TFLOPS

Blender

A30 PCIe

2036

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +477%

11762

A30 PCIe

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RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Dec 2022

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

142

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

18176

224

TMUs

568

96

ROPs

192

224

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

AD102

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GPU Variant

AD102

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

4 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

608 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.9

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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