Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Quadro RTX 6000

Place in the ranking	69	202
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.26	no data
Power efficiency	12.83	53.63
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	TU102	AD107
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	13 August 2018 (6 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores	4608	2048
Core clock speed	1440 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	18,600 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	260 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	509.8	129.6
Floating-point processing power	16.31 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	32
TMUs	288	64
Tensor Cores	576	64
Ray Tracing Cores	72	16

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).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	672.0 GB/s	128.0 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 Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	7.5	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	48.49	27.29
Recency	13 August 2018	26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	260 Watt	35 Watt

RTX 6000 has a 77.7% higher aggregate performance score, and a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 642.9% lower power consumption.

The Quadro RTX 6000 is our recommended choice as it beats the RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 6000 is a workstation card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.