Nvidia’s new workstation RTX 6000 Ada GPU might cost more than $7,000
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Nvidia’s new not-Quadro workstation GPU might actually be more expensive than we thought, according to some retail listings.
By Umar Shakir
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Nvidia’s about to launch its new for-serious-work-only RTX 6000 graphics card, and it’s going to be expensive. The new workstation card apparently showed up in retail listings on sites like ShopBLT and CompSource, according to VideoCardz, with prices coming in at a business expense-busting $7,378 to over $8,000.
Announced in September, the RTX 6000 is powered by the same Ada Lovelace architecture as Nvidia’s new RTX 40XX-series gaming offerings. We didn’t get information about the 6000’s pricing at that time, but competing top-end workstation cards like AMD’s Radeon Pro W6800 with 32GB of VRAM can cost less than $4,000 in comparison. Even Apple’s overpriced W6900X doesn’t go over $6,000.
To be fair, the new RTX 6000 has 48GB of GDDR6 ECC RAM, and based on specs published by Leadtek, it has over four times the single-precision performance at about 91.1 teraflops compared to 22.2 on the W6900X. So with that kind of arsenal, Solidworks users could potentially load all of the objects.
That’s the same amount of memory that Nvidia’s current Ampere-based (and confusingly named) RTX A6000 has. The A6000 is less than $7,000 at some retailers, carrying a large premium compared to its gaming twin, the $1,000 RTX 3090. That gap is actually quite similar between both the $7,000-plus RTX 6000 and Nvidia’s new hugely impressive RTX 4090 gaming GPU at $1,599.
Although the RTX 4090 with 24GB of VRAM has half the amount of memory as the RTX 6000, they’re almost on par with other specs, like memory bandwidth and both tensor and ray-tracing cores.
Also, differentiating the products is tougher now since Nvidia decided not to use its workstation Quadro branding on the 6000.
But most importantly for engineering firms, the RTX 6000 apparently requires less power with a max 300W compared to the 4090’s gulping 450W draw to go along with its pricey ECC RAM. So upgrading will technically be easier for some workstations that aren’t ready for that overhead. What won’t be easier is actually affording to do it.
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Quadro RTX 6000 [in 4 benchmarks]
NVIDIA
Quadro RTX 6000
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- Interface PCIe 3.
0 x16 - Core clock speed 1440 MHz
- Max video memory 24 GB
- Memory type GDDR6
- Memory clock speed 14000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro RTX 6000 sales 13 August 2018 at a recommended price of $6,299. This is a Turing architecture desktop card based on 12 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 260 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at
48.97%
of a leader’s which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
GeForce RTX
4090
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General info
Some basic facts about Quadro RTX 6000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance rating | 31 | |
| Value for money | 9.76 | |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2021) | |
| GPU code name | TU102 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 13 August 2018 (4 years old) |
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| Launch price (MSRP) | $6,299 | |
| Current price | $3943 (0.6x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
To calculate the index we compare the characteristics of graphics cards against their prices.
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Technical specs
Quadro RTX 6000’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro RTX 6000’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4608 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 1440 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1770 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 18,600 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 260 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 509. 8 |
of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Quadro RTX 6000’s compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it’s interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro RTX 6000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 24 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 672.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro RTX 6000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C |
API support
APIs supported by Quadro RTX 6000, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | |
| CUDA | 7.5 |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Quadro RTX 6000. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
RTX 6000
48.97
- Passmark
- GeekBench 5 OpenCL
- GeekBench 5 Vulkan
- GeekBench 5 CUDA
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite.
It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
RTX 6000
19177
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU’s processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
RTX 6000
134522
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU’s processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
RTX 6000
103054
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU’s processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
RTX 6000
159550
Is Quadro RTX 6000 good for gaming?
Let’s see how good Quadro RTX 6000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Quadro RTX 6000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000
103.
14
NVIDIA Quadro GV100
102.29
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
102.04
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
100
AMD Radeon Pro W6800
99.59
AMD Radeon Pro W5700X
91.71
NVIDIA Tesla P40
87.93
Quadro RTX 6000 AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Quadro RTX 6000 from AMD is Radeon Pro W6800, which is nearly equal in speed and is lower by 1 position in our rating.
Radeon Pro
W6800
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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro RTX 6000:
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
100
AMD Radeon Pro W6800
99.
59
AMD Radeon Pro W5700X
91.71
AMD Radeon Pro VII
87.87
AMD Radeon Pro W5700
81.36
AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
81.29
AMD Radeon Pro W6600
78.05
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Quadro RTX
8000
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Quadro
GV100
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Radeon Pro
W5700X
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Tesla
P40
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Radeon Pro
VII
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Quadro RTX
5000
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro RTX 6000 according to our statistics.
Ryzen Threadripper
3990X
11.7%
Ryzen Threadripper
PRO 3995WX
3.2%
EPYC
7302
3.2%
EPYC
7742
2.9%
Ryzen Threadripper
3970X
1.8%
Core i9
10980XE
1.8%
Ryzen Threadripper
PRO 5995WX
1.8%
Ryzen Threadripper
3960X
1.