GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 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 nameGA102GA102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date5 October 2020 (4 years ago)21 October 2022 (2 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 cores107526144
Core clock speed1410 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1800 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt290 Watt
Texture fill rate604.8339.8
Floating-point processing power38.71 TFLOPS21.75 TFLOPS
ROPs11296
TMUs336192
Tensor Cores336no data
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 EPS1x 12-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount48 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz19 GB/s
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s608.3 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 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 October 2020 21 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 290 Watt

RTX A6000 has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3070 Ti GA102, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 3.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX A6000 and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX A6000 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000
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