Quadro RTX A6000 vs ATI Radeon 9250

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1588	61
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	4.86
Power efficiency	no data	13.77
Architecture	Rage 7 (2001−2006)	Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code name	RV280	GA102
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	1 March 2004 (21 years ago)	5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$4,649

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	no data	10752
Core clock speed	240 MHz	1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1800 MHz
Number of transistors	36 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	300 Watt
Texture fill rate	0.96	604.8
Floating-point processing power	no data	38.71 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	112
TMUs	4	336
Tensor Cores	no data	336
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	84
L1 Cache	no data	10.5 MB
L2 Cache	no data	6 MB

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	AGP 8x	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	8-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 type	DDR	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	48 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	200 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB/s	768.0 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

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	8.1	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.7
OpenGL	1.4	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
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	no data	158
1440p	no data	123
4K	no data	106

Cost per frame, $

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

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 March 2004	5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	48 GB
Chip lithography	150 nm	8 nm

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