NVIDIA Quadro M5000 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Quadro M5000 and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro M5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1800MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 211.6GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro M5000

4.252 TFLOPS

RTX A6000 +810%

38.71 TFLOPS

Blender

Quadro M5000

330

RTX A6000 +1581%

5549

OctaneBench

Quadro M5000

87

RTX A6000 +591%

602

Quadro M5000

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RTX A6000

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2020

Quadro

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

861 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1800 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

211.6GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

10752

128

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

66.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

132.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

604.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

38.71 TFLOPS

4.252 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.71 TFLOPS

132.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

604.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA102

GM204-875-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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