Quadro RTX 8000 Passive and RTX A5000 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

RTX A5000

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU102

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Release date

August 2018

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1620 MHz

1695 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

8192

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

230 Watt

Texture fill rate

466.6

433.9

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

16 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3