NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA GRID A100A
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro K6000 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 400W)
NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1005MHz vs 902MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)
4032 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K6000
5.196 TFLOPS
GRID A100A
+167%
13.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2013
Release Date
May 2020
Quadro
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
797 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
902 MHz
Boost Clock
1005 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
6144bit
288.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1866GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
108
2880
Shading Units
6912
240
TMUs
432
48
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
432
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
54.12 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
216.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
5.196 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
1.732 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
400W
550 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK110B
GPU Name
GA100
GK110-890-B1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
8.0
5.1
Shader Model
N/A
