Quadro RTX A6000 vs ATI Radeon 9000 LE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated38
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data10.47
Power efficiencyno data13.40
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV250GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 July 2002 (22 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$4,649

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 coresno data10752
Core clock speed250 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors36 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000604.8
Floating-point processing powerno data38.71 TFLOPS
ROPs4112
TMUs4336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone8-pin EPS

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB48 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s768.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors1x VGA, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.44.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 300 Watt

ATI 9000 LE has 971.4% lower power consumption.

RTX A6000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 18 years, a 76700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9000 LE and Quadro RTX A6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9000 LE is a desktop card while Quadro RTX A6000 is a workstation one.


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