What is the best GPU, A6000 or the RTX 3090.The truth for rendering, Workstation GPU vs. Gaming GPU 

I'm a 3Ds Max Arch Viz artist with V-ray and was watching this video, praying that you would not overlook the HUGE importance of VRAM capacity in poly-heavy complex scenes. Thank you for your review. Yes the A6000 smashed that render by half compared to the 3090, due, in a large part, to the 48GBs of VRAM. If the GPU doesn't have the VRAM necessary to load the scene with textures, poly counts, particle simulations, etc, it has to page file the textures on the program disk. This accounts for a far slower workflow. Also, with NVLink, you can essentially double your VRAM to 96GB (assuming of course you can afford two A6000s!) and that would allow you to load entire cityscapes, forests etc. HAVING SAID THAT, your point is very valid, for the large majority of content creators out there, performance per dollar, you can get 2 or 3 3090s (MSRP) for the price of a single A6000. So realistically, you have made a very valid point. I personally am still using a Ttitan xP with 11GBs and it cannot load heavy scenes with carpets and Vray fur. I would personally gladly upgrade to 2x 3090s then shell out for a A6000. You can set one as the dedicated interface and the other one for rendering. Nvidea caters to high, high-end post houses (ILM, Weta Digital, etc) with the Quadro series and hence the hefty price tag. Yes the drivers are ISV certified and the RAM is ECC, but for the average guy out there, or even for the more professional prosumer like myself, a A6000 is a pipe dream. Id be happy with dual 3090s tbh. Thank you for the video, and you got yourself a new subscriber.

I work at Pinewood Studios UK and work for Marvel, Disney Lucas etc. We switch to Geforce card back on Star Wars ep7 and have never looked back. The Geforce cards are stable and good to go. Saved money can be routed to other hardware. Great advice to all and great video - subscribed. Thank you. (We use the new 4090 RTX in all of our workstations now / 3090's before).

Thx for doing this video , we really appreciate it, as there are only few videos regarding workstation GPUS

This video helped me out so much and answered all the questions I've had while I'm trying to build a workstation for CAD. Thank you so much! Excellent video.

Something important about the price is that GeForce cards are more unstable. I used to work with Deep Learning with a GeForce 3090 and was pretty common to see my computer crashing or stopping the training. I'm using an RTX a5000 and I never had that issue anymore.

I'm a civil engineer. First thing comes first and I'd like to congratulation you on the way you put the video together...... really straight to the point and full of just the important information instead of wasting time talking so much about things an average viewer won't understand...... Second thing is that there is no decent reviewer out there that do tests -the same professional level that you do - on computer parts whither its GPUs or CPUs on engineering tasks..... I mean yes there are a lot of artists out there that would like to know how fast their art work will be rendered...... but there are -as far as I know - many professional work loads are not being tested..... I don't want to be very technical but how do these cards handle: -Matlap AI workloads -BIM applications like Revit and Robot and maybe Sap2000, Etap and Safe for structural analysis -GIS analysis and clustering -Analysis of aerial photo for environmental, hydraulic and structural purposes I mean yes there are some workloads for 3DMax and Maya and some video production that can put artists on the limits of what this hardware can and can't do, but the way I see it that they are very rare and in those rare cases they do have big studios and production companies: ie. can directly address Nvidia about technical stuff. But we the engineers are reaching those limits on a daily basis and we are the ones who really need to make educated decisions about the hardware we use. thank you for your time reading this.

This was really well done and I appreciate how you compared several scenarios. Subscribed!

great comparison presentation! love your kitchen studio! very nice concept

I just found your channel and I love it.

Something i've been searching a lot on RU-vid, great comparison , loved it, thanks!

Very useful. Thank you for putting this out!

Very good video really shows what matters. Honestly underrated channel a lot more relevant content than some of the "bigger' channels out there.

Thank you sir! Finally see someone that knows what he's talking about and showing actual production scene

Thanks a lot for the comprehensive video. Subbed for the future videos!

I always enjoy your videos ,in this one I especially liked knowing that the studio ready drivers had the same bug fixes as the "Quadro" drivers

Thank you for being blunt and to the point, not babbling about everything nobody cares about

Would you do a comparison with the new 4090 vs A6000 ADA Lovelace cards

Excellent production design: your set, lighting, audio, video, dialogue...liked and sub'd.

Very nice. As someone starting to dip their toes into 3D content creation for fun, but only currently has the 4GB 1650 Super I could afford when putting the tower together midway through last year, it's nice to see a video addressing the content usability of the 30 series cards. LTT and that ilk make great videos, but they barely give the render benchmarks a mention and they certainly don't go into this level of detail. I know the new fancier cards are on the horizon, but this has helped convince me to grab a 30 series now and enjoy stable and yet powerful rendering compared to what I'm getting now. I can always splurge again in a few years if the newer ones are really so much better, but by then I might be doing far more complex stuff with it thanks to a few years of practice and need the extra horses.

Thanks for video, very helpful! A comparison of Solidworks assembly and drawings performance between the A6000 and the W6800 AMD-card would be interesting. Also the A5500 is of interest. Thanks again.

You can rent the cards for $1.50 an hour for one card or $6.00 an hour for 4 RTX6000 cards or $1,000 per month per card, cloud based. I personally have the 3090 card in my PC which is good for most applications. If I need raw speed for any given time I will rent the cards.

You said exactly what I wanted to hear. I play zero games, but I do alot of amateur work with Blender 3D and have been perplexed on going with a new RTX or a studio ready graphic card. thanks!

Thank you for all your content, I truly appreciate it. This video was very helpful.

Excellent video. Gave some vital information about the cards and how memory has been useful for different situations

Don't forget about AI and ML work. Larger LLM's benefit from more VRAM. Also note how much heat you produce and power consumption with 2x 3090 in NVLink vs RTX A6000

finally a more sensible benchmark on actual workflow usage for these cards. sick and tire of those gaming benchmarks who thinks the only actual usage for GPU's are for gaming only and complain for the high price tag

Just the things that I want to see. Well done!

Thanks for the info. I’ve watched many of your vids and they helped me build the best machine for me. Much appreciated.

It depends on what you need them for, but for me I need A6000/A5000, not RTX 3090. Why? Multi-GPU setup, where I need peer-to-peer (P2P) access between all GPUs; memory transfer between GPUs through host memory is a no go for me. P2P is part of Nvidia GPUDirect, and only possible with 3090 over NVLink (i.e. only possible between pairs), so if you want a 4 GPU setup and need P2P, forget about it. With A6000/A5000 P2P is possible over PCIe, which means running 4 of them is possible. Also dual slot profile makes it easier to stack (I know blower type 3090 is available, but hard to find). May also be interested to know, in Windows in order to enable P2P over NVlink, SLI mode needs to be enabled in NVidia Control Panel. Fun fact: NVidia disabled this in latest Windows drivers, so if you want it to work, need to roll back to a pre-Jan 2021 driver! Linux drivers don't have this issue though.

I think the cost difference is pretty insane BUT I use Octane render and I am always maxing out VRAM and having to reduce scenes...Not only does it slow you down considerably when you reach the 'ceiling' but you tend to get alot of issues when you reach the 90% mark of the VRAM capacity with systems crashes. 48gb would be very welcome in my workflow but I will wait to see what the 40 series will offer.

Thanks for the great video! You got yourself a new subscriber! I would love to see some possible benchmarks on Keyshot and whether the additional VRAM actually makes a difference there. My guess would be no, given the typical lack of crazy complexity in most Keyshot scenes.

Very good insights I learn from your channel - THANK YOU

One thing is the power consumption and the lack of VRam, then if it takes a couple of minutes or hours more to run is less critical, for LLM fine tuning, those consumer cards are useless because of lack of RAM, because it's the size of the VRam that determines what you can load in for training.

Keep making these please I'm a pro 3D artist and your videos have really helped.

Just wanted to say that I really appreciate you and your content. There is so much misinformation when it comes to hardware in the creative space and content like this has been really missing.

I'll second the request for the A6000 vs 4090 comparison! Interesting to see the results!

do you have any tests with dual 3090 with NVLink on big scenes like the one you showed where double VRAM made a huge difference? I am debating if adding another RTX 3090 FE to my workstation is better at 750-800 EUR used or selling the RTX 3090 and buying the new RTX 4090. I am leaning more towards two 3090s if NVLink actually works and scales good. It would be cool if you can do test like this :)

Thanks for the video, I hardly found comparisons between the Quadro and the rtx in a professional environment, I wish you could make comparisons in AI tasks such as generated images.

Thank you for the video. When doing 3d renderings the biggest difference I found between A SERIES Vs GEFORCE is temperature.

thanks man, well explained and showcased

Hi, Great Video! I have a couple of questions, 1: What are you thoughts on GPU for Unreal Engine (Content creation/ Virtual Camera/ Green screen maybe but No LED wall ) 3090 rtx vs A5000. 2: There are many makers for 3090 card, Which one would you recommend, founder's edition vs other makers.(I was looking in 3090 FE vs 3090 ASUS ROG-STRIX but if you have other recommendation please do share) Thanks in advance,

Thank you for your test, I agree with you. I'm a 3D motion graphic designer and animation. I have been working with C4D and Octane render for many years. From my experience, I'm working on Quadro and Geforce. The 3D preview frame rate performance and rendering of Quadro and Geforce are not different. Quadro is just only of their marketing or product positioning but the price is too cruel. Quadro only has more RAM but it's a lot more expensive than Geforce 5 times. For me, It's a huge cost. I try to argue with other people over the years about Quadro and Geforce but no one believed. Especially the computer sellers and people who are not graphic designer.

Great content! I was wondering if workstation gpu's would make any difference in complex 2d workflow like a complex scene or drawing in adobe illustrator . im currently using gtx 980 and sometimes when some drawings get too complex, it becomes slow and sometimes unresponsive to changes and i don't see any measurable gpu usages but utilizes cpu more (mostly 1 or 2 core) . I couldn't find anything regarding this online that's why im asking if a moderate quadro/rtx a series will make my 2d workflow faster in terms of viewport performance and rapid changes to complex drawings in Adobe Illustrator? TIA

The memory pooling since the 2080Ti's have been great for production and I really don't see myself buying a quadro (or A as they are called now) ever again. The pooled Vram from 2 x 3090's is more than enough for my workloads (mostly ArchVis). Great content mate, glad I found you! Keep it up :)

Hi would you please the same test but not for rendering, but for computation. Try software such as Ansys mechanical or Abaqus. These software has the option to utilize GPU in the computation. We really would like to know if Geforce can work as good as Quadro for computing in double precision mode. Thanks. That will help a lot of engineers out there!

Just what I was looking for thanks so much. I think this solved my dilemma I'll go for the 3090 and maybe add a second card in the future - with prices tumbling down now that seems more sensible! I'm looking to purchase a workstation for a personal project which uses Metahumans in Unreal Engine. Would be great to see how the two hold up in the viewport in Unreal - in a filmmaking (24fps) context. I know this is a more niche use case though! :-)

Thank you for this very informative video. Now that the GPU prices are down, would love to see a test using dual Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti, and if possible please test them with Video editing software like DaVinci Resolve 18 and Adobe Premier.

Very informative 👏 and quick

professional comparison …just what I need

Great review just what I was looking for! Q: Can you test the memory pooling of 2 RTX 3090's with NVLink in Blender? I'd really like to see that.

can you still spoof them to quadros? up until 2000 series ik you can just remove a resistor and it changes the device id

You sir are speaking my language! Been looking for a channel that talking about computers in a 3d production studio setting. Subscribed! :)

Can you please do the following tests on the A6000: - AutoDesk Revit architecture render -MatLap heat exchange simulation -AutoDesk Advance Steel stress and displacement calculation -AutoDesk Robot wind load simulation and seismic load calculation I know they are out of the scope of this channel but me being a civil engineer have no idea what to expect from this kind of investment if I'm going to make it....... And no other channel are nice enough to read through the comments section let alone give an answer....... Thanks for your time

Can You test the A5000 against the RTX 3090 or the RTX 4070 ?

Por fin alguien serio que se dedica a hacer videos para creadores!!! Gracias por compartir

Glad I found your channel and am a new subscriber! I was looking around with wide eyes the past couple days regarding the A4000 and all I could find were "tests" using games as the benchmark. So I guess I'm looking much more favorably now at the 3070 and 3080. In either case, however, I am looking at the used market, specifically eBay. Any comment on going this route? And finally (don't laugh!), I have a Core i7 970. That was the first 6-core chip. Would a 3070 work in my system (decently) or would the CPU throttle it? (Blender modeling and renders.) Thanks!

Great sir.! Please help me. Will this GPUs (Radeon RX 6800 XT, Radeon RX 6600 XT, Radeon RX 7000 XT ) are good for Maya, 3ds max, Zbrush, painter, blender, etc. Is it good for our modeling and hard file viewport navigation and rendering purposes?

Very interesting channel, testing hardware with professional softwares, and not with games. Would be nice to see gpu tests with Substance Painter.

you're replying to every comment,really great! you're putting a lot of time in it! thank you so much💗

Very good content. Keep it going, mister!

Speaking from experience, my A4000 out performs my 3080 in AutoCAD and Revit in two ways. First the 3080 lags during certain operations - for example "override graphics in view" in REVIT or "layers" in cad. The second thing is the artifacts that you get with the G-force card when rotating a model are annoying. Every time I get a new WS, I try the current top of the line g-force card and every time I end up back to the WS card.

Interesting! How about follow-up with A6000 vs 4090?

We don't get a lot of testing with the Quadro cards as is, so it truly is welcoming whenever we get to see somebody take the time to compare these products to their GeForce counterparts, the added software compatibility and considerably higher Video Memory truly does make a difference and today the subject of Clearance Factor has become ever more important in a time where the RTX 4090 barely has any Dual Slot options when compared to the Quadro L6000 (RTX 6000: Ada Generation) that many people are beginning to flat~out ditch GeForce because of the lack of smaller options to fit in a smaller case (I've been using Micro ATX since I999; never have I used a larger form factor). In this era, the core audience that will benefit heavily from products such as the Quadro L6000 is definitely in the AI and Deep Learning space: Now, I don't know what your history is with certain Memory Intensive AI software such as OpenAI Jukebox, but it would be incredibly welcoming to see how much faster Music Continuations with it render on the L6000 when compared to the 4090, even the Tesla cards witness a major handicap at the 0I6 and 024 GB threshold in this particular workload that jumping to a card with a capacity of 048 or better truly does help the process run smoother without either becoming sluggish or crashing due to an Out of Memory error; Jukebox is something that I truly hope we will see more people in the Techtuber scene showcase as part of their Benchmark Suite, it doesn't get a lot of attention outside of a select few and thus having concrete numbers on how fast it works under plentiful conditions would show the Quadros' true worth over GeForce, we're still a few generations away from being able to render a Sixty Second Sample in the same time as its length or shorter and it'll be nice to see which cards get the most out of it until that time ultimately comes. (:

Hi thank you for your review! I’m a 3D character animator using mostly Maya, I worked in the majors studios using workstations with both cards you mentioned, and my thought is that a Quadro card is more efficient in the viewport and computing processes than a GeForce. Even in my personal rigs with lower end cards I’ve noticed that, for example I had a workstation with a Quadro K2000D with 2G of VRAM and a laptop 5 years newer with a GTX1060 and I had a better viewport speeds with the workstation, the workstation CPU was a bit better but wouldn’t justify the differences in performance. Your totally right on that comparison with the A4000, I would definitely choose that one over an RTX 3070 or even 3080. I guess it all comes down on the production usage, if you’re going for the renders or even 3D generalist a Gforce might be a better choice budget wise, but if you’re doing stuff like character animation, vfx and simulations I would definitely choose a middle end quadro.

I think the key point here is that Nvidia only recently started releasing Studio ready drivers for Geforce cards, as of the 3000 series. It USED to be true that Geforce wasn't suited for workstation usage because of the lack of driver optimizations for the Geforce line. The underlying hardware has pretty much always been the same with differences in numbers. Weaker workstation GPUs (i.e. fewer CUDA cores than Geforce) were still preferred for workstation use because the Studio drivers were better optimized to use that hardware.

I got a a4000 for 400 (what a change a year makes ) but it solved my problem with the 3070. Not enough memory

You did a great job 💯 Thanks for suggestions

I would be very interested to know what kind of difference work station gpus make in cad programs such as Solidworks or fusion.

Would you say for real-time video rendering using Unreal Engine, would I still need an A6000 or would two 3090’s be as well, if not slightly better?

I can't find a new NVlink 2x 3090 Benchmark. Would be really helpfull!

Finally found your video. That is what I was looking for, thanks! Do you still have the 2 GPUs? I would be glad if you do some AI and Molecular Dynamics workloads with these both cards. That’s why I need that powerful GPUs, also Im a enthusiast on Space Simulators so a bit of gaming benchmarks because would not hurt. Thank you.

I like master like you, now people counting views without knowing that technology advances or disadvantages. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏻

can I use mixed multiple gpu on blender? like gtx 1070 and 1050ti.

You should benchmark the 2x nvlinked 3090s vs the A6000. Graph the memory usage and bandwidth during the pre render. Curious to know how the complex scenes saturate the extra memory

very informative and depends on the industry or people need to.... thx alot👍👍👍

Amazing video! Could I ask about the storage space on top on the back? Looks really nice and I'm looking for something to store some of my gear.

Perhaps you would consider doing performance per dollar with dual NVLink 3090 vs dual a6000 vs single a6000?

Nobody is talking about TDP comparison between workstation and GeForce cards. cost of running system and power bills in commercial setup or running workstation or server 24 x 7 RTX3090 TDP is 350Watt whereas a4000 TDP is only 140Watt.

Great to see this content. As you said a lot of other channels say that you have to have a quaddro.

Thanks for really usefull data there is one more question that bothers my mind, what about gpu based simulations? i wnoder if you mind take a look at houdini 19 showreel, there is roughly a billion voxels in the scene. which guy can handle it better?

If you are using Unreal Engine go with A6000. You can put twice as much texture in streaming pool. And that’s a big deal since you are running real-time with no multi-GPU support.

I currently run a RTX 4090 on my Blender workstation and have one simple question. Is it better to build a 2nd PC with another RTX 4090 to do network renders, or can i put X2 4090's in the same system, or lastly, should I spend big money and get dual A6000's in the same workstation to speed up rendering time for more complex renders? A duplicate system to what i currently have is going to cost about 4k less than the cost of the dual A6000's, and adding a 2nd RTX 4090 is a fraction of the cost but i do not know if it is possible without SLI. A work associate of mine has dual A5000's and renders really fast but I do not know if it would be better, or even possibly faster to have 2 computers with 4090's vs 1 computer with dual A6000's or even have dual RTX 4090s? If anyone has a good answer or other questions I do not know to ask, please let me know.

Excellent content! Definitely subscribing.

Good video! Thanks for sharing! Any chance of testing these cards with Arnold? I use Arnold (C4DtoA) and I'd love to see some comparisons when rendering with the GPU. Arnold has slowly been making progress with its GPU function.

Very interesting, but now I have a question, I plan to upgrade the graphics cards of all my computers but I could only afford to upgrade to an A4000 and not an A6000, but I could upgrade all of them to a 3090, all the computers are used only for 3D modeling and animation, not for rendering or anything else. But usually heavy scenes are created, generally many polygons, so my question is, would the A4000 or the 3090 be better for that type of work? The only thing that interests me is that the scene is seen in real time when modeling, or when animating, and that the viewer of the work area does not get stuck and is seen in real time either when loading a preview in it viewer or simply while animating. It would be very useful if someone helps me with this question, because I can't find videos or information about this, only tests in video games, which is of no use to me at all. Which would be better? I'm not looking for the best on the planet either, but I do want to be sure that I make the best decision... I've been thinking for 3 weeks and I still don't know. The worst thing is that I have to make the decision before the following week. Damn.... :/

Which one is better for me as a game dev and 3D artist

Thank you, this was very informative. I'm curious how these cards compare when running real-time production software e.g. Unreal 5, Nvidia Omniverse and Masterpiece Studio Pro. A similar video testing those would be great.

Thank you for the informative video. I would like to know which is the cheapest graphics card for workstation purpose. Thanks

What about a6000 Vs 4090 comparison test?

I always install studio drivers on my 1660 super 6gb

Excellent video, This channel is gold for creators!!! So, you are using the same studio driver for both cards? Then, Could we run the two in the same system?

For AI workloads the memory and tensor cores are important due to the amount in the data sets. If you have bigger data sets it becomes more important to have bigger memory or have a better algorithm to partition the exchange of RAM and GPU RAM... If I remember from the Cuda API you move memory from one to the other, the thing with normal memory in a program is that you can page into swap memory or virtual pages, but it is not the same with GPUs. At least not automatically handled by the OS as far as I know.

Here(Sweden) you can get 3x 3090 for one A6000, going 3x 3090 would be a quite a lot faster than a single 3090...

Hoping for a 4090 vs A6000 video ; - )

Hi, thanks for the video this channel has a lot of truly interesting information that's not easy to find elsewhere. If possible I'd like to ask a question: would you recommend an a4000 or an rtx 3080 for doing 3d animation in Maya and Unreal Engine (nowadays they are priced basically the same)?

Thank you again for such informative video!

2 things, VRAM and NVLINK. Thats the main difference.

I'm an industrial designer, I use SOLIDWORKS, I usually work on furniture, kitchens and lighting. Is rare for me to work with more then 100 pieces at the same time in one file. As you probably know SOLIDWORKS recommend the use of Quadro. I saw that only with Quadro, unless you cheat, you can render with SOLIDWORKS program. I usually use keyshot for rendering. My question is, do I really need a Quadro? Or it's fine with a GeForce 4080. Thanks

What resolution of monitor do you use HD, 4K, 8K?

Can you please do a comparison with the NVIDIA GPUs when using unreal engine 5.2 for virtual production? Thank you!