Quadro K6000 and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison

Quadro K6000

Quadro RTX A6000

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK110B

Ampere

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

July 2013

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

902 MHz

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

797 MHz

1410 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,196 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,080 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2880

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

225 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

216.5

625.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

4x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2