Quadro NVS 280 SD vs Quadro RTX A6000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	54	1601
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.88	no data
Power efficiency	13.96	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2025)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	GA102	NV18 C1
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	5 October 2020 (5 years ago)	31 May 2005 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,649	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores	10752	no data
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	250 MHz
Boost clock speed	1800 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	28,300 million	29 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	604.8	1.000
Floating-point processing power	38.71 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	112	2
TMUs	336	4
Tensor Cores	336	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	84	no data
L1 Cache	10.5 MB	no data
L2 Cache	6 MB	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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	267 mm	168 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	None

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	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	3.2 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data
Resizable BAR	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DMS-59

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	8.0
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-
DLSS	+	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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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	158	no data
1440p	123	no data
4K	106	no data

Cost per frame, $

1080p	29.42	no data
1440p	37.80	no data
4K	43.86	no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	5 October 2020	31 May 2005
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	10 Watt

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