NVIDIA RTX A6000
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 is a graphics card released on October 5, 2020, built on the Ampere architecture. It has 10,752 shading units, 48 GB of GDDR6 memory, a boost clock of 1.80 GHz and a 300 W board power rating. It scores 22,633 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.
Depth: 39 recorded fields, 11 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 scores 22,633 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 97.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #69), measured across 518 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 911.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA RTX A6000 averages DirectX 9 250 fps, DirectX 10 150 fps, DirectX 11 190 fps, DirectX 12 89 fps and GPU Compute 13,574 ops/s, across 518 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 states the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, up to 48 GB of memory, a core clock of 1410 MHz, DirectX 12_2 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2021-01-28. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 is based on the Ampere architecture and uses the GA102-875-A1 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has 10,752 shading units, 336 texture mapping units and 112 render output units.
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA RTX A6000. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA RTX A6000.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 runs at a base clock of 1.41 GHz and boosts to 1.80 GHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 is equipped with 48 GB of GDDR6 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has a board power rating of 300 W and it connects over PCIe 4.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 was released on October 5, 2020 and launched at a price of $4,649.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.
Features
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has 2 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Rendering
-
Supported: DirectX 12 UltimateMicrosoft's top DirectX 12 feature tier, covering hardware ray tracing, mesh shaders, variable-rate shading and sampler feedback.
Not listed (3)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA RTX A6000 supports Hardware ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate under Rendering.
Compute and AI
-
Supported: CUDA Compute capability 8.6Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA RTX A6000 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.6) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes | Supported4:4:4: Yes |
| AV1 | Not supported | Supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA RTX A6000: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 2).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 have?
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has 48 GB of GDDR6 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has a board power rating of 300 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 scores 22,633 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 97.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #69. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 89 fps.
Does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA RTX A6000, although it can decode AV1 in hardware.
Does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 support DirectX 12 Ultimate?
Yes. The NVIDIA RTX A6000 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has CUDA compute capability 8.6.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 use?
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 connects over PCIe 4.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA RTX A6000 released and how much did it cost at launch?
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 was released on October 5, 2020 and launched at a price of $4,649.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
1 filled value
- Architecture: Ampere (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GA102 -> Ampere. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.
Similar performance
Compare the NVIDIA RTX A6000
Side-by-side specification comparisons against cards in the same performance band.