A800 PCIe 80 GB vs Quadro RTX 6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking65not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.24no data
Power efficiency13.02no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU102GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)8 November 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,299 no data

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 cores46086912
Core clock speed1440 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1410 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate509.8609.1
Floating-point processing power16.31 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs96160
TMUs288432
Tensor Cores576432
Ray Tracing Cores72no data

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 connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeGDDR6HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount24 GB80 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1512 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s1,935 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)N/A
Shader Model6.5N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA7.58.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 8 November 2022
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 80 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 250 Watt

A800 PCIe 80 GB has an age advantage of 4 years, a 233.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 71.4% more advanced lithography process, and 4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 6000 and A800 PCIe 80 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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