NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs NVIDIA GRID A100B

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2018
May 2020
Generation
Quadro
GRID
Type
Professional
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1230 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
1005 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1215 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
48GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
HBM2e
Memory Bus
384bit
6144bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
1.87TB/s

Render Config

SM Count
72
108
Shading Units
4608
6912
TMUs
288
432
ROPs
96
192
Tensor Cores
576
432
RT Cores
72
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L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
48 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
155.5 GPixel/s
193.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
466.6 GTexel/s
434.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.86 TFLOPS
55.57 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.93 TFLOPS
13.89 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
466.6 GFLOPS
6.947 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
TU102
GA100
GPU Variant
TU102-875-A1
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Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
7 nm
Transistors
18.6 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
754 mm²
826 mm²

Board Design

TDP
260W
400W
Suggested PSU
600 W
800 W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
7.5
8.0
Shader Model
6.6
N/A