NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX A2000 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1200MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 12 GB
+260%
7.987 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Aug 2015
Quadro
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
562 MHz
Base Clock
-
1200 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
26
SM Count
-
3328
Shading Units
1536
104
TMUs
96
48
ROPs
64
104
Tensor Cores
-
26
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
7.987 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
70W
TDP
100W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
