Quadro RTX 6000 Passive vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking149not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation19.92no data
Power efficiency8.16no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega 10TU102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 $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 cores40964608
Core clock speed1382 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate409.6449.3
Floating-point processing power13.11 TFLOPS14.38 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs256288
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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB24 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed945 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth483.8 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 260 Watt

RTX 6000 Passive has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 15.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and Quadro RTX 6000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
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