NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

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NVIDIA RTX A6000 NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 2GB VRAM Quadro M520 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1800MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

10368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +4738%

38.71 TFLOPS

Quadro M520 Mobile

0.8 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

RTX A6000 +3068%

602

Quadro M520 Mobile

19

RTX A6000

VS

Quadro M520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2017

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

384

336

TMUs

16

112

ROPs

8

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.328 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.66 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

799.5 GFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM108

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

628 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

300W

TDP

25W

700 W

Suggested PSU

-

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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