GeForce GTS 450 and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 450

Quadro RTX A6000

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF106

Ampere

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

September 2010

October 2020

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

8-pin EPS

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

783 MHz

1410 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

601.3 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

300 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

25.1 billion/sec

625.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1804 (3608 data rate) MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.7 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI

4x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2