NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A6000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 2765.73
$ 2310.27 significantly less expensive
$ 5076.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

42789 points
226% significantly better overall score
13092 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

1019 FPS
705 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
315 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

503 FPS
345 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
158 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

740 FPS
517 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
223 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

425 FPS
302 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
123 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14992.38 points
183% significantly higher Blender score
5294.30 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

383325 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
193937 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

380401 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
165252 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2017 MHz
43% significantly higher core clock speed
1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2407 MHz
33% slightly higher boost clock speed
1800 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width
384 Bit

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

575 W
300 W
91% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

423.6 Gigapixels/s
110% significantly higher pixel rate
201.6 Gigapixels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

21760
102% significantly more shading units
10752

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680
102% significantly more texture mapping units
336

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176
57% significantly more render output processors
112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1st of 586
28th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January
2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 5090 vs RTX A6000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the RTX A6000 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A6000 has a significantly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the RTX A6000.

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