NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2018
Sep 2011
Generation
Quadro
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1230 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1050 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
48GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
134.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
72
-
Shading Units
4608
960
TMUs
288
48
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
576
-
RT Cores
72
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
12

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
155.5 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
466.6 GTexel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.86 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
14.93 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
466.6 GFLOPS
-

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
TU102
Barts
GPU Variant
TU102-875-A1
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
Turing
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
40 nm
Transistors
18.6 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
754 mm²
255 mm²

Board Design

TDP
260W
254W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
7.5
-
Shader Model
6.6
5.0