GRID K2 and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison

GRID K2

Quadro RTX A6000

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK104

Ampere

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

May 2013

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

745 MHz

1410 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 2,289 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,540 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

225 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

95.36

625.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5 GB/s

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.0

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.2