GeForce GTX 1070 and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070
Quadro RTX A6000
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Ampere
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
May 2016
October 2020
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
8-pin EPS
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1800 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1410 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
625.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
4x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-