Quadro RTX A6000 vs FirePro S9300 X2

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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 data10.31
Power efficiencyno data14.11
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCapsaicinGA102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date31 March 2016 (8 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,999 $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 cores409610752
Core clock speed850 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors8,900 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate217.6604.8
Floating-point processing power6.963 TFLOPS38.71 TFLOPS
ROPs64112
TMUs256336
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin8-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 typeHBMGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB48 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s768.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.06.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 March 2016 5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX A6000 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9300 X2 and Quadro RTX A6000. We've got no test results to judge.


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