Tesla V100 SMX2 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 ranking37not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation10.31no data
Power efficiency14.11no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGA102GV100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date5 October 2020 (4 years ago)21 June 2017 (7 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 cores107525120
Core clock speed1410 MHz1370 MHz
Boost clock speed1800 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate604.8438.4
Floating-point processing power38.71 TFLOPSno data
ROPs112128
TMUs336320
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 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSNone

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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount48 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1758 MHz
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s900.1 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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12.0
Shader Model6.75.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.67.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 October 2020 21 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 250 Watt

RTX A6000 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

Tesla V100 SMX2, on the other hand, has 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX A6000 and Tesla V100 SMX2. We've got no test results to judge.


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