NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2018
Jun 2025
Generation
Quadro
Console GPU
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1230 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
800 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
48GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
102.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
72
12
Shading Units
4608
1536
TMUs
288
48
ROPs
96
16
Tensor Cores
576
48
RT Cores
72
12
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
4 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
155.5 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
466.6 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.86 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.93 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
466.6 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
TU102
GA10B
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
Unknown
Die Size
754 mm²
200 mm²

Board Design

TDP
260W
40W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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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
6.8