NVIDIA started Quadro RTX A6000 sales 5 October 2020 at a recommended price of $4,649 . This is a high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 48 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 768.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 8-pin EPS power connector is required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro RTX A6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	41
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	11.75
Power efficiency	13.39	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA102
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,649	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

Detailed specifications

Quadro RTX A6000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro RTX A6000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	10752	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1800 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	28,300 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	604.8	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	38.71 TFLOPS	of 104.8 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	112	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	336	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	336	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	84	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro RTX A6000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro RTX A6000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro RTX A6000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro RTX A6000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	8.6
DLSS	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro RTX A6000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RTX A6000 58.48

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

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3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

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3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

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3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

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3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

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3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro RTX A6000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD	158
1440p	123
4K	106

Cost per frame, $

1080p	29.42
1440p	37.80
4K	43.86

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Atomic Heart	160−170
Counter-Strike 2	130−140
Cyberpunk 2077	130−140

Full HD
Medium Preset

Atomic Heart	160−170
Battlefield 5	150−160
Counter-Strike 2	130−140
Cyberpunk 2077	130−140
Far Cry 5	52
Fortnite	240−250
Forza Horizon 4	200−210
Forza Horizon 5	160−170
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	170−180
Valorant	290−300

Full HD
High Preset

Atomic Heart	160−170
Battlefield 5	150−160
Counter-Strike 2	130−140
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	270−280
Cyberpunk 2077	130−140
Dota 2	139
Far Cry 5	53
Fortnite	240−250
Forza Horizon 4	200−210
Forza Horizon 5	160−170
Grand Theft Auto V	128
Metro Exodus	98
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	307
Valorant	290−300

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	150−160
Counter-Strike 2	130−140
Cyberpunk 2077	130−140
Dota 2	131
Far Cry 5	52
Forza Horizon 4	200−210
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	180
Valorant	290−300

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite

240−250

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	45−50
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	350−400
Grand Theft Auto V	96
Metro Exodus	84
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	170−180
Valorant	300−350

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	130−140
Cyberpunk 2077	70−75
Far Cry 5	52
Forza Horizon 4	170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	110−120

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite

150−160

4K
High Preset

Atomic Heart	45−50
Counter-Strike 2	30−35
Grand Theft Auto V	155
Metro Exodus	70
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	146
Valorant	300−350

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	90−95
Counter-Strike 2	30−35
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dota 2	128
Far Cry 5	50
Forza Horizon 4	120−130
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	95−100

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite

75−80

Closest competitors

Quadro RTX A6000's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 107.01

Radeon PRO W7700 102.31

RTX A5000 100.44

Quadro RTX A6000 100

RTX A5500 96.19

RTX A4500 95.49

Radeon Pro V620 93.67

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro RTX A6000 is Radeon PRO W7700, which is faster by 2% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.