FireGL X3-256 and Quadro RTX 8000 - video card comparison
FireGL X3-256
Quadro RTX 8000
Architecture
R400 (2004−2008)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
R420
TU102
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
August 2004
August 2018
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
491 MHz
1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
160 million
18,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
57 Watt
260 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.892
509.8
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
48 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
908 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
29.06 GB/s
672.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.0
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131