Quadro RTX A6000 vs ATI 3D Rage II+ DVD

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated37
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data10.30
Power efficiencyno data13.52
ArchitectureMach (1992−1997)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameMach64 GT-BGA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 September 1996 (28 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$4,649

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data10752
Core clock speed60 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors5 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology500 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate0.06604.8
Floating-point processing powerno data38.71 TFLOPS
ROPs1112
TMUs1336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 MB48 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed83 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth664.0 MB/s768.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGA, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX5.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 1996 5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 4 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 500 nm 8 nm

RTX A6000 has an age advantage of 24 years, a 1228700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between 3D Rage II+ DVD and Quadro RTX A6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that 3D Rage II+ DVD is a desktop card while Quadro RTX A6000 is a workstation one.


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ATI 3D Rage II+ DVD
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