FirePro V3900 and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison

FirePro V3900

Quadro RTX A6000

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Turks

Ampere

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

February 2012

October 2020

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

650 MHz

1410 MHz

Floating-point performance

624.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

716 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

199 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

15.60

625.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

28 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

4x DisplayPort

DisplayPort count

1

-

Dual-link DVI support

1

-

HD сomponent video output

1

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2