Quadro RTX A6000 vs FirePro S9000

Place in performance ranking	360	86
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.35	0.47
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Tahiti	Ampere
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 August 2012 (11 years ago)	5 October 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	$4,649
Current price	$433 (0.2x MSRP)	$8932 (1.9x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro S9000 has 826% better value for money than RTX A6000.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1792	10752
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1800 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	300 Watt
Texture fill rate	100.8	625.0
Floating-point performance	3,226 gflops	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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	8-pin EPS

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	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	48 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	264 GB/s	768.0 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	1x DisplayPort	4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	1	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	no data	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	45−50 −253%	159 +253%
1440p	40−45 −223%	129 +223%
4K	30−35 −253%	106 +253%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	13.07	41.78
Recency	24 August 2012	5 October 2020
Cost	$2499	$4649
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	48 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	300 Watt