Quadro RTX A6000 vs RTX 4000

Place in performance ranking	99	84
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	27.57	0.46
Architecture	Turing (2018−2021)	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	TU104	Ampere
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	13 November 2018 (5 years ago)	5 October 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$899	$4,649
Current price	$974 (1.1x MSRP)	$8932 (1.9x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX 4000 has 5893% better value for money than RTX A6000.

Technical specs

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	2304	10752
Core clock speed	1005 MHz	1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz	1800 MHz
Number of transistors	13,600 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	300 Watt
Texture fill rate	222.5	625.0

Size and 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 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	8-pin EPS

Memory

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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	48 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	13000 MHz	16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	416.0 GB/s	768.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

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

3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

4x DisplayPort

API support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	7.5	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	150−160 −6%	159 +6%
1440p	120−130 −7.5%	129 +7.5%
4K	100−110 −6%	106 +6%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	39.81	41.95
Recency	13 November 2018	5 October 2020
Cost	$899	$4649
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	48 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	160 Watt	300 Watt