NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2018
Apr 2021
Generation
Quadro
Quadro Ampere
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1230 MHz
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
1695 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
48GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
768.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
72
64
Shading Units
4608
8192
TMUs
288
256
ROPs
96
96
Tensor Cores
576
256
RT Cores
72
64
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
6 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
155.5 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
466.6 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.86 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.93 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
466.6 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
TU102
GA102
GPU Variant
TU102-875-A1
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Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
18.6 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
754 mm²
628 mm²

Board Design

TDP
260W
230W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7