A2 PCIe vs RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking15not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.14no data
Power efficiency17.08no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD102GA107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date3 December 2022 (2 years ago)10 November 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,799 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores181761280
Core clock speed915 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed2505 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors76,300 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate1,42370.80
Floating-point processing power91.06 TFLOPS4.531 TFLOPS
ROPs19232
TMUs56840
Tensor Cores56840
Ray Tracing Cores14210

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount48 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2500 MHz1563 MHz
Memory bandwidth960.0 GB/s200.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 December 2022 10 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 6000 Ada Generation has an age advantage of 1 year, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

A2 PCIe, on the other hand, has 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX 6000 Ada Generation and A2 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.


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