Quadro RTX A6000 vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

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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 data13.54
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1GA102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 September 2015 (9 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 cores1210752
Core clock speed300 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1800 MHz
Number of transistorsno data28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data604.8
Floating-point processing powerno data38.71 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data336
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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data48 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data768.0 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 data4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 5 October 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm

RTX A6000 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Skylake) and Quadro RTX A6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Skylake) is a notebook card while Quadro RTX A6000 is a workstation one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Skylake)
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