Quadro P6000 and RTX A40 - video card comparison
Quadro P6000
RTX A40
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP102
GA102
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1645 MHz
1755 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
12,634 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
11,800 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
394.8
589.7
Memory type
384 Bit
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
24 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
9016 MHz
14.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
Up to 432 GB/s
695.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
DVI-D DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo
3x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays
4
-
DirectX
12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
3D Vision Pro
+
-
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
+
-
High-Performance Video I/O6
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
Multi-display synchronization
Quadro Sync II
-
nView Desktop Management
+
-