Quadro RTX 8000 and A100 PCIe - video card comparison
Quadro RTX 8000
A100 PCIe
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
TU102
GA100
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
August 2018
June 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1770 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1395 MHz
1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
18,600 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4608
6912
Power consumption (TDP)
260 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
509.8
609.1
Memory type
GDDR6
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
48 GB
40 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
5120 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
2.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
672.0 GB/s
1,555 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
No outputs
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
7.5
8.0
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2