Quadro4 900 XGL vs Quadro RTX A6000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	37	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	10.36	no data
Power efficiency	13.62	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name	GA102	NV25 A2
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	5 October 2020 (4 years ago)	19 February 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,649	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	10752	no data
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1800 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	28,300 million	63 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	604.8	2.400
Floating-point processing power	38.71 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	112	8
TMUs	336	8
Tensor Cores	336	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	84	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	None

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	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	325 MHz
Memory bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	10.4 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 1.4a

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	8.1
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	5 October 2020	19 February 2002
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	150 nm

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