RTX A500 Mobile vs Quadro M6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile and 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Mobile Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1537MHz vs 1114MHz)
Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)
Quadro M6000 Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Mobile
6296
Quadro M6000
+8%
6844
3DMark Time Spy
RTX A500 Mobile
3023
Quadro M6000
+70%
5162
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX A500 Mobile
1604
Quadro M6000
+50%
2415
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Mar 2015
Ampere-MW
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
832 MHz
Base Clock
988 MHz
1537 MHz
Boost Clock
1114 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
317.4GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
3072
64
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.18 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
106.9 GPixel/s
98.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
213.9 GTexel/s
6.296 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.296 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.844 TFLOPS
98.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
213.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
250W
-
Suggested PSU
600 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GM200
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
601 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
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
