A100 PCIe 40 GB vs Quadro RTX A6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking38not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation10.47no data
Power efficiency13.39no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA102GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date5 October 2020 (4 years ago)22 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,649 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 cores107526912
Core clock speed1410 MHz765 MHz
Boost clock speed1800 MHz1410 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate604.8609.1
Floating-point processing power38.71 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs112160
TMUs336432
Tensor Cores336432
Ray Tracing Cores84no 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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPS8-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 amount48 GB40 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s1,555 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)N/A
Shader Model6.7N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.68.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 October 2020 22 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 250 Watt

RTX A6000 has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 20% higher maximum VRAM amount.

A100 PCIe 40 GB, on the other hand, has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX A6000 and A100 PCIe 40 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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