Quadro M2000 and RTX A40 - video card comparison
Quadro M2000
RTX A40
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
GA102
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2016
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
1163 MHz
1755 MHz
Core clock speed
796 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,812 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.82
589.7
Memory type
128 Bit
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
14.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
Up to 106 GB/s
695.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
DP DP DP DP
3x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays
4
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DirectX
12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.2
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Desktop Management
+
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