NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs AMD FirePro W8000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2018
Jun 2012
Generation
Quadro
FirePro
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1230 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
72
-
Shading Units
4608
1792
TMUs
288
112
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
576
-
RT Cores
72
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
155.5 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
466.6 GTexel/s
100.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.86 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
14.93 TFLOPS
3.226 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
466.6 GFLOPS
806.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU102
Tahiti
GPU Variant
TU102-875-A1
Tahiti PRO GL
Architecture
Turing
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
18.6 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
754 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
260W
225W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
7.5
-
Shader Model
6.6
5.1