NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 16GB VRAM Quadro RTX 5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1815MHz vs 1800MHz)

Lower TDP (230W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +247%

38.71 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 5000

11.15 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

VS

Quadro RTX 5000

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Aug 2018

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1620 MHz

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

3072

336

TMUs

192

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

384

84

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU104

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GPU Variant

TU104-875-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

230W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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