Quadro RTX 8000 and A100 SXM4 40 GB - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 8000

A100 SXM4 40 GB

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU102

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

May 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

1410 MHz

Core clock speed

1395 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

400 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)

N/A

CUDA

7.5

8.0

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A