Quadro RTX 6000 vs Radeon E9173 PCIe

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated65
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data5.24
Power efficiencyno data12.98
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameLexaTU102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date3 October 2017 (7 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$6,299

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 cores5124608
Core clock speed1124 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed1219 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate39.01509.8
Floating-point processing power1.248 TFLOPS16.31 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs32288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s672.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 October 2017 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 260 Watt

E9173 PCIe has 642.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E9173 PCIe and Quadro RTX 6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon E9173 PCIe is a notebook card while Quadro RTX 6000 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe
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