Quadro RTX 6000 vs ATI FireGL V7200

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated65
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data5.24
Power efficiencyno data13.47
ArchitectureUltra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameR520TU102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 October 2005 (19 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,279 $6,299

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 data4608
Core clock speed600 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Number of transistors312 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data260 Watt
Texture fill rate9.600509.8
Floating-point processing powerno data16.31 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs16288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length229 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth41.6 GB/s672.0 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.5
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2005 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 12 nm

RTX 6000 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V7200 and Quadro RTX 6000. We've got no test results to judge.


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