NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000 NVIDIA RTX A2000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 and 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1200MHz vs 902MHz)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro K6000

5.196 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 +53%

7.987 TFLOPS

Quadro K6000

VS

RTX A2000

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Aug 2021

Quadro

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

797 MHz

Base Clock

562 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

26

-

Compute Units

-

2880

Shading Units

3328

240

TMUs

104

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

104

-

RT Cores

26

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

216.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

1.732 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

GA106

GK110-890-B1

GPU Variant

GA106-850-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

12 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

70W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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