GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

Quadro RTX A6000

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104 SLI

Ampere

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

August 2016

October 2020

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

8-pin EPS

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

14400 Million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

625.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

768.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

4x DisplayPort

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2

VR Ready

+

-