NVIDIA Quadro M6000 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1260MHz vs 1114MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 317.4GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro M6000
6.844 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+173%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Mar 2022
Quadro
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
988 MHz
Base Clock
585 MHz
1114 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
317.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
58
3072
Shading Units
7424
192
TMUs
232
96
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
106.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
213.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
6.844 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
213.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
80W
600 W
Suggested PSU
-
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GA103
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-
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8 billion
Transistors
22 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
496 mm²
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
6.8
