Quadro RTX 6000 Passive and RTX A40 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 6000 Passive

RTX A40

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU102

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1560 MHz

1755 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

449.3

589.7

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2