NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	65	60
Value for money	2.21	no data
Architecture	GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Vega 20	Ampere
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	3 June 2019 (4 years old)	5 October 2020 (2 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,399	$4,649
Current price	$5226 (1.2x MSRP)	$13315 (2.9x MSRP)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	10752
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	1720 MHz	1800 MHz
Number of transistors	13,230 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	475 Watt	300 Watt
Texture fill rate	440.3	625.0

Size and 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 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	Quad-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	8-pin EPS

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	HBM2	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	48 GB
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	2 GB/s	16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	1,024 GB/s	768.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.0b, 4x Thunderbolt	4x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.1	2.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.2
CUDA	no data	8.6

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	159
1440p	no data	129
4K	no data	106

Advantages and disadvantages

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Performance score	40.61	41.57
Recency	3 June 2019	5 October 2020
Cost	$4399	$4649
Memory bus width	4096	384
Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	10752
Memory bandwidth	1	768
Chip lithography	7 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	475 Watt	300 Watt

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