NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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NVIDIA RTX A6000 NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1800MHz vs 1440MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

7168 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +275%

38.71 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX A6000 +172%

5549

A30 PCIe

2036

RTX A6000

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

3584

336

TMUs

224

112

ROPs

96

336

Tensor Cores

224

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA100

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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