NVIDIA started Quadro RTX A6000 sales 5 October 2020 at a recommended price of $4,649 . This is an Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 48 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 768.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot 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.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 41.95% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking	84
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.46
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Ampere
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	5 October 2020 (3 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,649
Current price	$8932 (1.9x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1800 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	28,300 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	625.0	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and 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

Memory

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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	16000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

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

API support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2
CUDA	8.6

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 performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX A6000 41.95

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX A6000 89510

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

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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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

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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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX A6000 113167

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.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

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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	159
1440p	129
4K	106

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

75−80

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	70−75
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	70−75
Battlefield 5	110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	110−120
Cyberpunk 2077	75−80
Far Cry 5	52
Far Cry New Dawn	66
Forza Horizon 4	120−130
Hitman 3	130−140
Horizon Zero Dawn	90−95
Red Dead Redemption 2	65−70
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	100−110
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	70−75
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	70−75
Battlefield 5	110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	110−120
Cyberpunk 2077	75−80
Far Cry 5	53
Far Cry New Dawn	68
Forza Horizon 4	120−130
Hitman 3	130−140
Horizon Zero Dawn	90−95
Metro Exodus	98
Red Dead Redemption 2	65−70
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	100−110
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	307
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	70−75
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	70−75
Battlefield 5	110−120
Cyberpunk 2077	75−80
Far Cry 5	52
Far Cry New Dawn	65
Forza Horizon 4	120−130
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	180
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	70−75
Hitman 3	80−85
Horizon Zero Dawn	60−65
Metro Exodus	84
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	65−70

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	45−50
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	45−50
Battlefield 5	85−90
Cyberpunk 2077	35−40
Far Cry 5	52
Far Cry New Dawn	63
Forza Horizon 4	85−90
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	60−65
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	35−40
Hitman 3	40−45
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35
Metro Exodus	70
Red Dead Redemption 2	21−24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	146

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	27−30
Battlefield 5	50−55
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16
Far Cry 5	50
Far Cry New Dawn	63
Forza Horizon 4	55−60
Watch Dogs: Legion	21−24

Relative perfomance

Overall Quadro RTX A6000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

Radeon PRO W7600 110.2

Radeon Pro W5700X 108.25

Quadro GP100 100.76

Quadro RTX A6000 100

Quadro RTX 5000 98.67

Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 98.33

Radeon Pro W6600 97.62

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro RTX A6000 is Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, which is slower by 2% and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.