Product Compare

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Aug 2018 Dec 2010
Generation Quadro Northern Islands
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1395 MHz
Boost Clock 1770 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 48GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 672.0GB/s 160.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 72
Shading Units 4608 1408
TMUs 288 88
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 22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 169.9 GPixel/s 25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 509.8 GTexel/s 70.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 32.62 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 16.31 TFLOPS 2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 509.8 GFLOPS 563.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name TU102 Cayman
GPU Variant TU102-875-A1 Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Architecture Turing TeraScale 3
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 12 nm 40 nm
Transistors 18.6 billion 2.64 billion
Die Size 754 mm² 389 mm²
Board Design
TDP 260W 200W
Suggested PSU 600 W 550 W
Outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2x 6-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