NVIDIA GRID K520 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K520 and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K520 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1800MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
9216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K520
2.289 TFLOPS
RTX A6000
+1591%
38.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2013
Release Date
Oct 2020
GRID
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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Base Clock
1410 MHz
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Boost Clock
1800 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
84
1536
Shading Units
10752
128
TMUs
336
32
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA102
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-
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
