Quadro M6000 and A100 PCIe - video card comparison

Quadro M6000

A100 PCIe

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM200

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

June 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1114 MHz

-

Core clock speed

988 MHz

1410 MHz

Floating-point performance

6,844 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

8,000 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

213.9

609.1

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

40 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

6612 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

317.4 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.0

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2