NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Tesla S870

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 1536MB VRAM Tesla S870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1800MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

10624 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 800W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +11087%

38.71 TFLOPS

Tesla S870

0.346 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

VS

Tesla S870

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

May 2007

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

128

336

TMUs

32

112

ROPs

24

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.40 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

345.6 GFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G80

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

90 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

800W

700 W

Suggested PSU

1200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.0

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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