Quadro M6000 and RTX A40 - video card comparison

Quadro M6000

RTX A40

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM200

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1114 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

988 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

6,844 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

8,000 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

213.9

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6612 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

317.4 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2