NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA RTX A6000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 82% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 300 Watt
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 vs 5 Oct 2020
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A6000

  • Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • Around 94% higher texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 322.6 GTexel/s
  • 3x more pipelines: 10752 vs 3584
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 24 GB
  • Around 65% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
  • Around 53% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 193937 vs 127026
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1455 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed 1860 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Texture fill rate 625.0 GTexel/s vs 322.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10752 vs 3584
Maximum memory size 48 GB vs 24 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 193937 vs 127026

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A6000

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
127026
193937
Name NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA RTX A6000
Geekbench - OpenCL 127026 193937
PassMark - G3D Mark 4237
PassMark - G2D Mark 86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 735.8
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 58.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 178.784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2342.233
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 23142
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 23142
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 17833

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA RTX A6000

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA100 GA102
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 5 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating 101 98
Launch price (MSRP) $4649

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1440 MHz 1860 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz 1455 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 5.161 TFLOPS (1:2) 1250 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS (1:1) 40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS 40.00 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3584 10752
Pixel fill rate 138.2 GPixel/s 208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 322.6 GTexel/s 625.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 54200 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8-pin EPS 8-pin EPS
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

OpenCL 3.0 3.0
DirectX 12.2
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 48 GB
Memory bandwidth 933.1 GB/s 768 GB/s
Memory bus width 3072 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type HBM2e GDDR6