GeForce GTX 780 and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 780

Quadro RTX A6000

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK110

Ampere

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

May 2013

October 2020

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Minimum recommended system power

600 Watt

Supplementary power connectors

One 8-pin and one 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

863 MHz

1410 MHz

CUDA cores

2304

Floating-point performance

4,156 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,080 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

300 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

95 °C

Texture fill rate

160.5 billion/sec

625.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort

4x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

4 displays

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.3

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2

3D Gaming

3D Vision

3D Vision Live

Blu Ray 3D

PhysX